Zaavi (aka Virgin Megastore) in administration
They had one of the highest turnovers of any business not so long ago... how badly did they f**k that up?
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JK wrote:Smiths have a niche market though which may save them. Even though the stuff they sell is expensive you rarely find a competing stationary shop conveniently near Smiths. Or I don't anyway. The only exception is Oxford but that's to be expected.
In Croydon it's Smiths or nothing and I'm sure it's not alone.
Isn't it the present owner who has bought a sizeable number of the stores via a new holdings company in an effort to safeguard jobs? They reckon only 300 jobs are in danger now rather than the entire company.Big Dave wrote:USC is also in trouble about half the chain has been bought out but the rest is going,
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Sweatsock wrote:It seems to have been down to them using a single supplier, a supplier who was part of the Woolworths group. Domino effect by the sounds of it.
KabukiJoe wrote:Nope, I was surprised too, I didn't think businesses did that anymore. It just doesn't make sense to me to just use the one supplier.