Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on December 01, 2020, 01:05:08 PM
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Debenhams - since 1779 :o
Dotty Ps
Top Shop - all gone :'(
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There will be no high street shops left soon,BHS,House of Fraser and they say John Lewis is struggling too
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And then there's the Amazon ads on TV - get your Xmas shopping done quick before the shops are open...
I have no desire at all to visit the shops but if we don't more will close.
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We have one brand new shop, opened on out little high street. It's a delicatessen so hopefully it will do well.
As for the big chains and stores, I fear this is just the start. Those that were struggling will be finished off by the never-ending lockdown.
Off out to Christmas shop locally tomorrow.
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Not 4 much longer :'( we'll all need to start knitting and sewing again ::)
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Primark will still be there. Apart from McDonald's it's the only one that's crowded when every other shop is empty.
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Yes come on sheila with all that sheep,start knitting ;D I'll have a jumper for my Xmas thanks
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I need knee length socks that last !
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You wouldn't want one that I knitted. The last attempt had one arm normal length and the other one suitable for a gibbon. So as long as your knuckles scrape along the ground...
Socks are beyond me.
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That's a shame.
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Yes yes,that's fine for me Sheila ;D
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The gibbon one makes room for 2 goats. Probably ?
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Debenhams web-site overwhelmed ;D
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I always loved Debenhams,good quality clothes at a pretty reasonable price,so I'm sad they're going,don't know where I'll get the choice of clothes that they had.......big sad
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Since M&S left Debenhams was the only big department store left. It's going to be horribly empty now :(. I hate online clothes shopping, more things don't fit than do and often they just don't look as good as you think they will. It's fine for 'standard' items like a TV or washing machine but every clothes store seems to have a different fit (and so many seem to think all women are short and fat >:().
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I wasn't aware the 'Debenhams' was still operational, it was in difficulties years ago. I loved their jimjams and under wear.
I buy from Cotton Traders in the main or charity shops. CT have jeans of the correct length ;)
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Peacocks went a few weeks ago, a family firm that originated in Wales and then franchised. Laura Ashley clothing, gone. The high street suffered when local authorities signed off land masses for out-of-town shopping centres. Rates initially were cheaper so many of the large stores moved out of town. Leaving centres without anything to attract people in. Then the cafe culture arrived in the smaller towns which encouraged people back as well as Banks remaining. Then rents/rates in towns went up about the same time as on-line shopping became easier.
Locally two of the out-of-town centres were built on flood plains. Go figure.
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Think we'll all have to go naked :o
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;D ......... not in the Winter/Spring though. Good excuse to hibernate ?
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As an aside:
Le Bon Marché (lit. "the good market", or "the good deal" in French; French pronunciation: [lə bɔ̃ maʁʃe]) is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. Now the property of LVMH, it sells a wide range of high-end goods, including food in an adjacent building at 38, rue de Sèvres, called La Grande Épicerie de Paris.
. there is a mention of this Store in Lucie Aubrac by Sian Rees.
Whereas Bon Marche in the UK began in the late 1980s.
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I'm gutted debenhams is going, I loved that shop. All of it. 😩