Wilkinson's going into administration
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I got a trolley jack for just £19.99p from Aldi few years back & just keep it in the boot as its still go to be better than the widowmaker its pretty heavy & ok for the money & I bet you couldn't buy the same weight in raw steel let alone something with hydraulics etc
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Retroman839
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I went in yesterday ..
Gloomy mood
I was looking for inflatable beachballs
But none on sale ( probably because of all the pop on our beaches )
Gloomy mood
I was looking for inflatable beachballs
But none on sale ( probably because of all the pop on our beaches )
deadendthrills
Active member
I went to uni in Bournemouth for five years and couldn't wait to leave for any of them. The aforementioned aggressive begging was a thing even in 1997, compounded by the transient population and crass attempt to turn it into the Balearics of the south coast. Academically it was the 'sports science' and beauty capital of the country and never let you forget it. Ghastly place condemned by the fact that no one cared about it beyond the retired execs in the suburbs who treated the decent part of coast - the bit that wasn't Hell - like their own gated community. I say 'suburbs' for lack of a better name for the Travelodge-evoking anonymous sprawl that blankets that entire region.
So yeah, the only surprise is that there was any downhill left for it to go.
Retroman839
Senior Member
Down hill - is good for the poo
All way to the beaches
deadendthrills
Active member
The one thing I will say for Bournemouth was that it was far from the worst place to be into videogames. The Segaworld a few doors down from my flat was one of the few to get a Spikeout: Battle Street cab along with pretty much every Naomi game, the pier was a veritable Namco city, and we had Video Game Centre in Winton (https://www.facebook.com/VideoGameCentre/photos?ref=page_internal) where you could gawp at grey import consoles running Starfox 64, Ridge Racer V, etc.
Needless to say that's history now.
Needless to say that's history now.
CMYKhazi-Dan
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Went there every weekend in the Super Nintendo days. Owner (Martin?) was a great guy too, used to let me off a few quid when trading my games every time. Great service, great place 😍
Things Amazon has that my local town doesn't:
Everything I want or need at a good price
Things my local town has that Amazon doesn't:
A strong smell of cannabis everywhere
drunks
charity-muggers
dog-shit
scrotes everywhere
surly shop-assistants who think they are doing you a favour if they acknowledge your presence
expensive and limited parking
The thing is, 30 years ago none of the bottom lot were really there and going into town was a fun thing to do, now I absolutely hate it. Society is going down the pan and there is no better example of that than a small town shopping centre. As someone has said above, the coffee shops and cafes are full, it's not down to a lack of money being around. I blame the councils for making it as difficult and expensive as possible to go shopping locally, it seems they just want to keep motorists out of towns and leave them to the pond-dwellers.
Everything I want or need at a good price
Things my local town has that Amazon doesn't:
A strong smell of cannabis everywhere
drunks
charity-muggers
dog-shit
scrotes everywhere
surly shop-assistants who think they are doing you a favour if they acknowledge your presence
expensive and limited parking
The thing is, 30 years ago none of the bottom lot were really there and going into town was a fun thing to do, now I absolutely hate it. Society is going down the pan and there is no better example of that than a small town shopping centre. As someone has said above, the coffee shops and cafes are full, it's not down to a lack of money being around. I blame the councils for making it as difficult and expensive as possible to go shopping locally, it seems they just want to keep motorists out of towns and leave them to the pond-dwellers.
kingtreelo
Active member
the council in the poorer areas have been forced to try and drum up revenue by the Tories when they decided you could no longer apply for extra cash, you basically got what you brought in, and while leafy suburbs are well covered, poorer areas are not and have had to scramble to try and find money they were previously given from "income"
this resulted in an increase in parking charges and a total lack of being able to keep older town centres renovated
this resulted in an increase in parking charges and a total lack of being able to keep older town centres renovated
That's the insane world they have created, most people buy with credit, created of money that doesn't exist, it's a great banking scam isn't it along with you borrow money for house, you pay for 3 houses and they let you keep 1
My mate used to do loads of work on the computer systems at Experion, I didn't even know what the place was, I've never even looked what my Credit Rating is and will never need to because I don't borrow anything, when I had an Orange Mobile in late 90's I had to pay a deposit or something, probably because of credit rating I guess and makes me wonder if the Credit Score is the stepping stone to the Social Credit Score, get everyone used to it with money first
That's difficult to argue a case against, I'm guilty of not shopping local because they never have anything I need, the amount of times Ive tried to buy items and can't get them, used to end up at Makro most times as they nearly always had what I wanted before internet days, till they went down pan with mainly food again
Only time I'm in town centres is when I have to for work, every place I go I get asked for money multiple times a day, I avoid shops with beggers sat outside, wish I could help some of them, was great guys in Worcester the other month, homeless but seemed decent and he was shouting if my Grandad could see this now and was about in tears, that's where Charity money should be going, getting decent unfortunate people like that back on track, he was good singer I thought and had some talent, it's really sad to see
Look at The Fake Headlines the Mainstream media put out, they have removed the item now when click on it, these are the stores that closed last year I assume, one on the list I know did and all the others report the same garbage, some then go on to say these are ones already closed
14 stores have already closed in Bournemouth, Stockton, The Fort Birmingham, Shipley, Scunthorpe, Narborough Road in Leicester, Grantham, Redditch, Rotherham, Skegness, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil, Cleethorpes and Woolwich. The stores closed in 2022 as financial restructuring began.
Wilko closing down 14 stores days after devastating announcement - see full list
Retroman839
Senior Member
My cousin lives in Leighton buzzard Hertfordshire.
Councils are sending the homeless from my town to this town..
And from other surrounding towns.
They are herding the homeless .
It’s not just migrants they are herding on boats. Homeless are being herded on mass into singular towns..
1 identify your enemy
2 segregate your enemy
3. destroy them
I can think of 4 of my school friends
That are dead all from chocking on vomit from drink and or drugs.
But the other common denominator is
they where living in a time when nobody
Can spare time to help or provide basic living Essentials for people that require some time/help to steer the through a particularly difficult period of their lives. And also help with underlying mental health issues that are preventing them from being self reliant.
Then they will get back to work and on their feet, and put back into society.
Dumping them is been going on for to long
Electronic money would allow for gov
To stop people being able to use the money out side of the town..
The town becomes an island
A prison
A camp
London as a kid watching the large new blocks of 1 bed apartments rise up.. I was well aware the capitalist system was in full tilt.
Single people work harder.
The system didn’t want family’s
So you’re written out!
Now that capitalism is dying you see the first rats leaving the sinking ships
As they move away from the city’s and start to creep into the places they can afford to raise a family because the the city they once loved is not able to provide for them. Why because they are not wanted by that system!
Only workers hard workers need apply.
The larger rats turn on the smaller rats for sustainability as the grain drys up.
Turning up the rent
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I live in Bristol and work in the City Centre, it's an absolute hell hole, I try and go in as little as possible, we have a clean air zone thing which is £9, plus petrol, plus parking which if you time it wrong is £18 a day, I try and get the bus but it never turns up, the other day I finally managed to get a bus, and as I got off in the centre I look out the window to see a bloke has casually 'whipped it out' and is having a slash up against the wall in broad daylight! he then was staggering about like some sort of zombie with eyes all glazed over and the general smell or rotting food and urine in the air was horrific!
It's become an inaccessible run down mess!
When it comes to our local high street where the Wilko is, it will be sad to see it go but that high street is unrecognisable now, if you take the charity shops, gambling shops, banks (which are left), estate agents and food shops out - you literally have nothing! real sad state to see these days.
While we don’t have one in our nearest town just 7 miles south Winsford has an average size precinct shop but 10 miles north we have a HUGE Wilkinson in Runcorn shopping city (a futuristic look at how shops might all be by year 2000 it was an innovation of the 1970s) still quite busy with about 20% stores inside closed has a good variety of pound land travel agents phone shops small farm foods and others including couple of bank branches but surrounding it has become a spread of retail park big boys Asda TKMaxx Aldi and cinema plus more …. but parking still free in both Bit quieter footfall than it’s peak 3 decades ago perhaps .
My sympathy here is where Wilkinson is located on one corner of the main ‘CITY’ you can park at the door one of 4 multi level free parks ((was20p till the late 80s)) but kiosks closed and removed as outer parking deveoped
If the Wilkinson shop closes it makes one multi level parking redundant too as you have to walk through their shop to the main corridors of shops . Handy for us we don’t always buy there but Poundland is next door but one and greggs food bar opposite take pie or pizza back to car but if we needs a can of paint or kitchen wares etc it’s handy as car is just metres away ….so that sad
It will devastate that part of Runcorn shopping city as the store size limits the type of retailers who might open in it thought Tesco did recently leave the city and Range took their store on They might think of returning if they could get a car park corner access store?? The only upside is the local busses also pull underneath that corner
All stores inside have loading via cellar access below as traffic can weave under to choice of 4 parks and run through the loading access roads below it was ahead of its time and looked like it was off dr Who when it first opened. I think another store occupied that corner before Wilkinson not sure but will see what happens if they do close all their stores ?
My sympathy here is where Wilkinson is located on one corner of the main ‘CITY’ you can park at the door one of 4 multi level free parks ((was20p till the late 80s)) but kiosks closed and removed as outer parking deveoped
If the Wilkinson shop closes it makes one multi level parking redundant too as you have to walk through their shop to the main corridors of shops . Handy for us we don’t always buy there but Poundland is next door but one and greggs food bar opposite take pie or pizza back to car but if we needs a can of paint or kitchen wares etc it’s handy as car is just metres away ….so that sad
It will devastate that part of Runcorn shopping city as the store size limits the type of retailers who might open in it thought Tesco did recently leave the city and Range took their store on They might think of returning if they could get a car park corner access store?? The only upside is the local busses also pull underneath that corner
All stores inside have loading via cellar access below as traffic can weave under to choice of 4 parks and run through the loading access roads below it was ahead of its time and looked like it was off dr Who when it first opened. I think another store occupied that corner before Wilkinson not sure but will see what happens if they do close all their stores ?
John Bennett
Senior Member
South Shields has one of the best beaches in the country, but the town centre is a shithole.
Even back during GCSE days you knew the C.B.D's* were shrinking due to retail parks taking over, but maybe online has accelerated it a bit more.
The thing is, I don't order that much online - I do go to lots of shops for DIY - Wickes, Toolstation, Screwfix, and we obviously go shopping at Asda etc, and they're all in the town, but a short walk from the main street, which is dead. And sadly the nice old buildings in the main street aren't the style people want for such shops, nor could you pull up a car outside them. They also seem to have a habit of catching fire when left empty for years, which staggeringly is grounds to have them de-listed and demolished
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I really like the idea of browsing shops - many memories of computer game shops, but there's been sod-all of interest for year in the town centre. And Wilko was a depressing place compared to somewhere like Lidl.
It feels like the council are verging on bankruptcy, but they think spending millions to move the marine college to the town centre will fix things. Seems desperate to me.
And sadly, like most places there are people off their faces sat on plant pots all over the town. People barely even go to pubs now either. They get arseholed at home then stagger into a nightclub at 12am.
I thought Tynemouth over the river was doing much better, but it's 90% coffee shops and bars when you look closer.
*Central Business District, not the places trying to look like weed shops.
Even back during GCSE days you knew the C.B.D's* were shrinking due to retail parks taking over, but maybe online has accelerated it a bit more.
The thing is, I don't order that much online - I do go to lots of shops for DIY - Wickes, Toolstation, Screwfix, and we obviously go shopping at Asda etc, and they're all in the town, but a short walk from the main street, which is dead. And sadly the nice old buildings in the main street aren't the style people want for such shops, nor could you pull up a car outside them. They also seem to have a habit of catching fire when left empty for years, which staggeringly is grounds to have them de-listed and demolished
.I really like the idea of browsing shops - many memories of computer game shops, but there's been sod-all of interest for year in the town centre. And Wilko was a depressing place compared to somewhere like Lidl.
It feels like the council are verging on bankruptcy, but they think spending millions to move the marine college to the town centre will fix things. Seems desperate to me.
And sadly, like most places there are people off their faces sat on plant pots all over the town. People barely even go to pubs now either. They get arseholed at home then stagger into a nightclub at 12am.
I thought Tynemouth over the river was doing much better, but it's 90% coffee shops and bars when you look closer.
*Central Business District, not the places trying to look like weed shops.
Maplin closing was a huge blow, they were really handy for buying small components/cables and the like during work hours. And looking back at when Woolworths went under, did anyone see that coming? I do shop at Wilko sometimes so it's a shame to see them in dire straights, but if they don't survive I can see shops like Ryman next in line if they don't adapt.
I dunno about things getting worse tho, I just can't agree fully with those kind of statements. Obviously there is always crazy stuff going on, but I feel as if things are starting to revert back to how it felt in the 70's and 80's.......
Just without the bags filled with hard Bostik sucked dry by glue sniffers, used jonnies/heroin needles in school playgrounds, handbags in bushes, broken glass by every car parking space on Saturday and Sunday mornings, crackheads roaming the streets during the morning school hike, a thing called taxing where you either give up your stuff to the 'taxer' or get stabbed.....that's what I remember when I'm not wearing my rose tinted glasses.
The older I get the more I think it's all by design, whilst the majority of people are shouting at the devious sods playing the fool, the same devious sods are diverting peoples attention with nonsense whilst laughing all the way to the bank with their swag.
I dunno about things getting worse tho, I just can't agree fully with those kind of statements. Obviously there is always crazy stuff going on, but I feel as if things are starting to revert back to how it felt in the 70's and 80's.......
Just without the bags filled with hard Bostik sucked dry by glue sniffers, used jonnies/heroin needles in school playgrounds, handbags in bushes, broken glass by every car parking space on Saturday and Sunday mornings, crackheads roaming the streets during the morning school hike, a thing called taxing where you either give up your stuff to the 'taxer' or get stabbed.....that's what I remember when I'm not wearing my rose tinted glasses.
The older I get the more I think it's all by design, whilst the majority of people are shouting at the devious sods playing the fool, the same devious sods are diverting peoples attention with nonsense whilst laughing all the way to the bank with their swag.
CMYKhazi-Dan
Saikyo Style 💪
Highstreet shops died in the 90s. Overcharging for dvds and CDs and clothes. Got what they deserved. Not gonna miss them.
CMYKhazi-Dan
Saikyo Style 💪
Last time I went into HMV (did they go out of business and come back?) they had doormats for sale. Get in the bin. What's going on!?
