Shop was intrigued to read on Market Insight that Dave Dodd, who co-founded Poundland, is plotting to develop a variety chain by the name of Hub. Despite Dodd’s protestations to the contrary, the business proposal looks set to plug some of the remaining gaps on the high street (and in shopping centres) left by Woolworths. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Woolworths’
Woolies is back!
Shop was very pleased to hear of the reincarnation of Woolworths as www.woolworths.co.uk, a new family friendly website launched by the brand’s new owners, online and catalogue retailer, Shop Direct. The company polled about a million UK families to find out what they loved most about Woolworths, meaning that the online shop will included toys, [...]
Woolworths CEO to set up recruitment site
Ironically enough, the former chief executive of Woolies, Trevor Bish-Jones, is launching a recruitment website aimed at unemployed execs. Mr Bish-Jones is thought to be investing some of his £500,000 severance pay into the new site, www.mypeoplebiz.com. The site is apparently designed to make use of social networking to help get folks into work, which [...]
Wellworths to open tomorrow
I enjoyed reading Retail Week’s story about the former Woolies manager, Claire Robertson who is about to reopen her store as Wellworths on Wednesday March 11. 34 year old Claire, who worked in Woolworths for 18 years, was in charge of the 6,500 sq ft branch in Dorchester before the chain’s collapse on January 6. In a [...]
Where’s the heart in that?
I was catching up with some of the specialist trade press this morning and discovered that The Times ran a piece last month calling for a national boycott of Valentine’s Day, in which writer Alice Fishburn said it was a ‘public form of humiliation’ and that the greetings card industry is guilty of ‘avarice’. She’ll [...]
