FabSwingers.com forum: Bring back Woolworths.

By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

Used to love Woolies, pick and mix, children's toys, music, clothes, gardening plus lot's more all in the one shop. Who else would like to see the return of a certain high street shop and why. X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes! Because it was classy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yess, it was one of my favourite shops. And every birthday my eldest sister would buy a huge pick n mix bag and fill it with ones she new I loved or ones to try

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Just go in Tesco or any supermarket and pretend it's Woolworths.

They have pick n mix, music, books, clothes, electricals etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved woolworths, definitely bring it back.

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Yess, it was one of my favourite shops. And every birthday my eldest sister would buy a huge pick n mix bag and fill it with ones she new I loved or ones to try

Can you remember the fruit Sweet's with the liquid inside?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I often dream about Woolworths as it was in the sixties. Lord knows what that says about my subconscious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just go in Tesco or any supermarket and pretend it's Woolworths.

They have pick n mix, music, books, clothes, electricals etc. "

It's not the same.

You young uns have no appreciation for the awesomeness that was Woolies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got knocked back for an Eminem CD from Woolies when I was 13. I stole a couple of things out of the pick n mix as revenge

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Just go in Tesco or any supermarket and pretend it's Woolworths.

They have pick n mix, music, books, clothes, electricals etc. "

Nah there's nothing to compare to a Woolies pick n mix.x

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

"Yess, it was one of my favourite shops. And every birthday my eldest sister would buy a huge pick n mix bag and fill it with ones she new I loved or ones to try

Can you remember the fruit Sweet's with the liquid inside?"

Fruit bonbons, you can still get them

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

I really miss woolies. The amount of random stuff I could pick up there was insane. I need curtain hooks, get them in woolies. Want to dye a pair of shoes, get the dye in woolies. Lost my padlock off the garage, pick up a new one in woolies.

Even now I'll need something odd and not know where to buy it, and I find myself thinking "woolies would've had that".

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

Woolworths has gone? When did that happen?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Woolworths has gone? When did that happen? "

Wait until you find out about Blockbuster

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I really miss woolies. The amount of random stuff I could pick up there was insane. I need curtain hooks, get them in woolies. Want to dye a pair of shoes, get the dye in woolies. Lost my padlock off the garage, pick up a new one in woolies.

Even now I'll need something odd and not know where to buy it, and I find myself thinking "woolies would've had that"."

How did they fit it all in craziness. X

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Woolies Pick n Mix, being at an age when you didn’t worry that the milk mouse you’ve put in your bag, could’ve been picked up by someone who’s not washed their hands after a toilet break, or the Kola Kubes (correct spelling) may have already been sucked and put back.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Woolies Pick n Mix, being at an age when you didn’t worry that the milk mouse you’ve put in your bag, could’ve been picked up by someone who’s not washed their hands after a toilet break, or the Kola Kubes (correct spelling) may have already been sucked and put back.

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By *aunchy RaccoonsCouple
over a year ago

Exeter

Easily the best Highstreet retailer we ever had.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Woolies was always good for shoplifting in my early years.. I'm talking 1978-1980...so don't try saying it was my fault they went bust..

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

Seen a little girl picking here nose and fiddling with the pick n mix in Poundland the other day. Yuck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got my one and only from woolies

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I got my one and only from woolies

Jaffa cake's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s what B&M aspires to be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got my one and only from woolies

Jaffa cake's

Nope

Desk fan

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"It’s what B&M aspires to be.

That and home bargain's pretty good shop's tbh. X

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I got my one and only from woolies

Jaffa cake's

Nope

Desk fan

Is it still going ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got my one and only from woolies

Jaffa cake's

Nope

Desk fan

Is it still going ?"

Yes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Think Wilkos does a good job.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Even now I'll need something odd and not know where to buy it, and I find myself thinking "woolies would've had that"."

Exactly that!

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

I'm unfortunately not that young I well remember Woolworths.

Pic n mix has been ruined for me after I saw a kid drop some sweets on the floor and just pick them up and put them back in the dispensers.

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By *ottom charlieMan
over a year ago

washington

"Used to love Woolies, pick and mix, children's toys, music, clothes, gardening plus lot's more all in the one shop. Who else would like to see the return of a certain high street shop and why. X"
love the idea but it would not be the same store we all remember when we were kids

woolies used to stock just about everything you might need and it was the first store you needed to go to if you had need of something,, nowadays no store has a vast range of stock,, anything that will not sell quickly is not cost effective,,

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Think Wilkos does a good job."

Had 2 Wilko's shut down only recently around here, think they are in decline. X

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

"I'm unfortunately not that young I well remember Woolworths.

Pic n mix has been ruined for me after I saw a kid drop some sweets on the floor and just pick them up and put them back in the dispensers.

Never get anything displayed loose like that. Have you not seen them squeezing the cakes, pstries and bread at the bakery counter before they decide what to buy? And that's just mum and dad.

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I got my one and only from woolies

Jaffa cake's

Nope

Desk fan

Is it still going ?

Yes

Still as cold as day 1 ?

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I'm unfortunately not that young I well remember Woolworths.

Pic n mix has been ruined for me after I saw a kid drop some sweets on the floor and just pick them up and put them back in the dispensers.

Never get anything displayed loose like that. Have you not seen them squeezing the cakes, pstries and bread at the bakery counter before they decide what to buy? And that's just mum and dad. "

Sorry I might have squeezed a bun or the odd baguette there.

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By *itzi999Woman
over a year ago

Slough

"Woolworths has gone? When did that happen?

Wait until you find out about Blockbuster

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

Some of us remember woolies long before pic n mix that was a very late addition it was the cheapo shop in its day but damn me we got far worse now lol.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Don’t grass me up (snitches get stitches) but my one and only shoplifting experience was stealing a sweet from the pick n mix in Woolies.

I’m not proud of it (

) and I have never stolen from a shop since. But it’s off my conscience now

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

I bought a rum cake in Barbados from them. The Woolworths look pretty legit over there

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"I bought a rum cake in Barbados from them. The Woolworths look pretty legit over there"

They haven't shut down they have just gone on holidays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to work in the Crystal palace one..there where I got my name from

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By *rMrsBrightsideCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle

I had a weekend job in Woolworths when I was young. Still have very fond memories of those years. Especially eating the pic and mix from the stock room

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Yes, Wilko is great, but definitely not the same

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By *nfin8yWoman
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Used to get pic n mix before going to the pictures.

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By *ornywelsh2sumCouple
over a year ago

Neath valley.

Sad day when woolworths closed shops on the high street

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By *he love cats OP Couple
over a year ago

South Wales

"Yess, it was one of my favourite shops. And every birthday my eldest sister would buy a huge pick n mix bag and fill it with ones she new I loved or ones to try

Can you remember the fruit Sweet's with the liquid inside?

Fruit bonbons, you can still get them "

Didn't know they were still about do they still taste the same.x

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