M & S

[rosyposy]

I was in our local store yesterday and they had notices just announcing that the store would be closing on August 11th and that was just about it, no sorry or thank you for your custom over the years, think they could have written a bit more than that, felt quite gutted really. Silly I know and business is business but still......:o(

[Patsy33]

Heartless!

[ummmm]

Ours is closing too. Shame

[ummmm]

And it's next door to what was BHS. It's gonna be a ghost town soon.

[Flonska]

I should imagine that the staff who work there did not write the notices and would have similar feelings as you do?

[ladybirder]

Perhaps it's closing for stocktaking and opening again on 12th?

[woofgang]

no ladybirder, it was on the news an week or so ago on the net too with a list of the stores they are closing

[hereIam]

The one in my town closed about a year ago and I miss it. It's still an empty store. I think it's sad that so many stores are closing. Poundland next.

[rosyposy]

Everyone knew it was closing but it was just the terse way they announced the date that got to me, yes ummmm ours is getting to be a ghost town too, Debenhams will be next imo, then nothing much left at all. :o(

[Canary42]

Their view probably is they had to close because you didn't spend enough there rosy, so a thank you is the last thing that would occur to the bean-counters ;-}

As someone has already said, the staff are likely as gutted as you are.

[DTCwordfan]

well, when the Government and local Councils wake up and realise how rates are killing in-town businesses - and there they are allowing all these out of towners chew up new land and get away with blue murder. Switch rates to a revenue tax soonest and we may see some in-town benefits (plus some structured thinking to the core businesses that that they want - and incentives to encourage investment and staffing.