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John Menzies (edit - beaten to it!)
Martin's newsagents?
Still a couple round here
Sweater Shop.
Brown muffs??! Shame that shop isn't around anymore!
Hintons & Radio rentals. There's a blast from the past.
Are dewhurst butchers still going?
Brown muffs??! Shame that shop isn't around anymore!
It's a fashion thing. I could wax lyrical about their failed entry in to the Brazilian market, but, while it was a close shave for them, they got caught by the short and curlies. I gather the story is being looked at in Hollywood.
My wifes clothing shop/business at the end of next month
Tie Rack
Homeworld
Virgin Megastore?
Plenty Martins still around.
Wiggle in Pompey. Yes, once upon a time it was bricks and mortar.
John Menzies still exists as a logistics and aviation services company it is listed on the FTSE, but it sold all its high street shops to WH Smith.
Eddie Bauer think they still exist in the US but long give from UK.
United Colours of Benetton.
Timothy Whites
Home & Colonial
There's still a Millets in our high street.
Used to get sale clothes from free spirit in brum.
Sony shops were good
MVC was good after Andys records went.
Three cooks
B-Wise/Be wise? can't remember how they spelt it....clothes shop, had a few around my way years ago.
Supercigs?
May have morphed into Acevape or something now
When I lived in Liverpool there was a hardware shop on Lark lane. The old bloke in there we called 'cat litter Ken' and he had 2 jokes. Every week we'd ask him to deliver a big bag of cat litter, and every week he'd say 'If you're not in i'll pour it through the letter box. The other one was 'What do you think this is- an ale house? whenever you wanted to buy nails.
Bet that's gone now.
I'm not even sure his name was Ken but I do like a bit of alliteration.
William Lowe (absorbed by Tesco)
Gateway
VG (usually small shops)
Woolco (another supermarket)
Adams (kids clothing)?
Phones 4 U
What happened there? Thought they were huge?
Dr Jives
Do It All
Focus DIY
{quote]Tower Records
really? 🙁
On a similar note: Avalanche Records, although that might just have been an Edinburgh institution?
Thurstons, which I think became Greggs.
Class, not sure were the yoof of Leeds buy their togs now.
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phones_4u ]Phones 4u was a large independent mobile phone retailer in the United Kingdom. It was part of the 4u Group based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Since opening in 1996, it expanded to over 600 stores. On 14 September 2014, EE, Vodafone, Orange & O2, the company's final remaining suppliers, ended their contracts. The company entered administration (bankruptcy) on 15 September 2014 with PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed as administrators.[/url]
VC/PE funding, over-expansion and a changing market.
Lennon's supermarket
Phones4U got bought up by a private equity firm for too much money and they tore the arse out of it trying to recoup it, I think it was said at the time that the liquidation was more about asset stripping than a failed business. Most of the shops got sold to Vodafone and EE who were looking to have their own stores and some went to other brands.
Powerhouse
Borders (book store)
All days
I though 'Stolen from Ivor' was completely gone but apparently one branch is still plugging away valiantly.
Goldberg's, although that may be just Edinburgh too.
Although a quick wiki tells me they had 100+ outlets.
Allders (or All Ders as we used to call it)
Laskys (Electronics store)
There's a C+A in my street.
Besaz, Enfield. Used to sell t shirts you could have felt letters stuck onto, any words you liked.
Lewis's in Leeds which I always thought was an excellent shop and still have a belt I bought from there in 1982 ( and it still fits).
Athena
Safeway's
I miss Beatties.
Used to love it in there when I was young but had no cash and now I'm old with cash they are gone. 🙁
Never had the same nostalgia for Model Zone and they've ****ed off too.
Walter Wilsons
VG
Motor World
Max Spielmann
Photo Processing or whatever it was called
Principles
There was also a posh town, higher end, wine group (bit like Majestic) in the 80's, 90's and 2000's who went bust shortly after Thresher Group, can't recall the name, maybe someone else can?. I expect someone bought the brand name from the administrators and might be still going in a pocket of little Englandshire.
Berkeley wines? Oddbins?
Oddbins was who I was thinking of 🙂
Keymarkets
International Stores
Officers Club
Officers Club
still loads of them about
Oddbins was who I was thinking of
Theres still one in Glasgow. I think theres just far fewer off-licenses full stop. Seems to be a city centre only business model now.
B.A.Nana - Member
Motor World
Max Spielmann
Photo Processing or whatever it was called
Principles
Max Spielmann is still going - there is one in the big Tesco in Chesterfield.
Its an interesting thread - quite a few of the business listed are actually still going but many have changed their business model to online only such as Motorworld http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Motor-World-Direct and Fat Willys http://www.fatwillyssurfshack.co.uk/
Fat Willy's Surfshack. Used to be one in Southport and Blackpool.
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