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Thursday December 11, 2008
Goodbye Woolies
A shop on every high street. From Lancing, (village of my birth), to the present in Banstead village. A permanent fixture. Until now.
I went to the closing down sale of one of the saddest victims of the financial crisis. It's all sentiment of course - all us middle aged middle class middle-of-the-road folk, who no longer shop there but remember it fondly as the only affordable place of our teenage youth. Now where will I get my minit-mop replacement heads and my "old stock" range of dyes?
The whole store was full of people saying "I remember when..." and "...how sad..." - but what can we do? all club together for a nationwide buyout? Because the truth is we certainly did not shop there enough to keep it going.
Goodbye Woolies - I hope you have gone to a better place.
Posted by Christina at 3:17 PM. Category: Oddments and stray thoughts
