Posted March 16, 200817 yr Wm Low (Scottish supermarket chain, taken over by Tesco) John Menzies (shops taken over by WHSmith) C&A Rediffusion Rumballows Tandy Liptons Timothy Whites chemist Texas Homecare radio rentals Granada Any other high street stores that have disappeared, that you can remember?
March 16, 200817 yr Has Martin Dawes disappeared off the face of the earth - I know we've none in Wigan anymore. Norma
March 16, 200817 yr Fine Fare Dixons Preedys Music Junction Virgin Megastore Tower Records Lewis' (Birmingham Department Store)
March 16, 200817 yr Our Price - spent a lot of my teenage years in the Southgate branch! Me too, not in that particular branch though.
March 17, 200817 yr Electronic Boutique - Had stores all over the country and then were bought over by Game and the name disappeared Safeway (now Morrisons) MVC
March 18, 200817 yr Toy & Hobby Time Computers shops Tiny Computers shops Presto supermarkets Pay Less supermarkets Kwik-Save supermarkets Littlewoods stores Lewis's (Manchester Store) Pauldens Dixons Mothercare (as far as i know they only sell direct & online now) Woolco (they were a Woolworths subsiduary) DER Nopri Edited March 18, 200817 yr by Euro Music
March 18, 200817 yr Has Martin Dawes disappeared off the face of the earth - I know we've none in Wigan anymore. Norma They are still going - they have a store in Manchester
March 19, 200817 yr Lewis's (Manchester Store) Lewis's had quite a few branches throughout the country. I worked in the Birmingham branch and it was a great place to be! Have fond memories of my time there :wub:
March 19, 200817 yr Lewis's had quite a few branches throughout the country. I worked in the Birmingham branch and it was a great place to be! Have fond memories of my time there :wub: I remember going to visit Santa's Grotto there when i was little.
March 19, 200817 yr I remember going to visit Santa's Grotto there when i was little. Me too, Lewis's Grotto was definately the place to see Santa Not long before they closed down for good, I had the dubious pleasure of being a supervisor in the Toy Department for one Christmas, thankfully only for one Christmas :lol:
March 19, 200817 yr Tandy's was sold to Carphone Warehouse in 1999 Remember the free batteries you could get from them and the electric sets eg 75 in 1 , 100 in 1 etc ?
March 19, 200817 yr Virgin Megastore There are still Virgin Megastores about - the one by Picadilly Circus on Oxford Street is still a Virgin Megastore.
March 19, 200817 yr There are still Virgin Megastores about - the one by Picadilly Circus on Oxford Street is still a Virgin Megastore. No it isn't! I was in there last month and it was a Zavvi! :unsure:
March 20, 200817 yr I did work experience in Our Price in Stockport when I was 15! HA! We used to have 2 Our Prices in Stockport. Now one of them is a building society (I think) and the other is... *gulp*... a bloody Starbucks! Here is another blast from the past!... Anyone remember Sam Goody?
March 21, 200817 yr Anyone remember Sam Goody? I know of Sam Goody - but didnt get to go in one as when i went to New York the ones i saw had closed down...still had loads of FYEs over there (tho it turns out that FYE bought Sam Goody in the end - see info from wiki below ) managed to get to HMV on fifth avenue before it closed down and the big Tower records outlet near the University - also lots of great little record shops around there too however think the massive Virgin Megastore that you always see in the films is still there - think zavvi is just a UK thing. Acquisition by Transworld In March 2006, Trans World Entertainment, which had been acquiring their competitors for several years, announced the purchase 400 Sam Goody and Suncoast stores. Trans World kept 345 of the stores open around the country and closed 55. In the fall of 2006, Trans World Entertainment Corp. began changing the names of mall-based Sam Goody stores to FYE, the company's signature retail store. Trans World retained the Suncoast Motion Picture Co. name on about 170 stores. [2] After a dismal fourth quarter 2006 and a lackluster year in general, Transworld admitted that it failed to anticipate some of the challenges that remained associated with the remaining Musicland stores that it acquired, especially the "Sam Goody Rural" concept located in small communities. As a result, they announced more store closings, many of which will likely be former Musicland stores. Trans World will focus on the f.y.e. brand and convert all Sam Goody stores to f.y.e stores in the future. As of February 2008, Trans World removed the Sam Goody brand from its corporate website. Sam Goody in the United Kingdom In the 1990s Sam Goody entered the UK market and established a presence in a number of English towns, such as Weston-super-Mare and Stockport, with a "deep catalogue" retail format that included a large amount of "recurrent" music albums and videos. However whereas this format might have been successful in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s, in the United Kingdom it came under pressure from a range of price led and established retailers. By the start of the 2000s Sam Goody had exited from UK marketplace selling its stores off to rival retailers. Stockport The Stockport store was launched to much "fanfare" in a new retail development at the end of the Mersey Way shopping centre over two floors and mezzanine, with a special listening post area with a view of the entire mall. However Sam Goody misjudged the marketplace and opened its store directly across the way from the slightly cheaper Our Price store, as well as nearby the successful Stockport value retailer Music Zone (Trade Direct) and HMV. Even though the store featured a larger amount of stock than its rivals and more obscure records, this was not enough to tempt the shoppers of Stockport away from the English companies, who preferred to shop around for the best deal. The store closed and the unit is now taken by a building society. Weston-super-Mare After Sam Goody had decided to exit the tough English market, the Weston-super-Mare store was sold to American rival Tower Records who rebranded it as Tower Express before they too decided to quit the UK market. btw anyone noticed those Past Times stores - they have loads of books about retailers in the 1940s and 1950s - tho think a lot of past times stores are seasonal now (just for xmas)
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