CHINGFORD: Former Woolies to become 99p Store (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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CHINGFORD: Former Woolies to become 99p Store
12:11pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009 in News
THE former Woolworths shop in Chingford Mount is to become a 99p Store.
The shop, in Old Church Road, is to reopen at 9am on Friday July 3 and will employ about 30 people.
A spokeswoman for 99p Stores said: “The nearest other store is Walthamstow and it’s the success of this one that has led to the Chingford opening.”
The new store will be one of 89 across London and the UK, about 15 of which are former branches of Woolworths.
The spokeswoman added that queues of hundreds of people hoping to snap up cut-price products were expected.
A promotional event will also be held in which one customer will be made a “Very Important Pennysaver”.
The winner will cut the red ribbon at the official opening and will also be given a 99-second “trolley dash” in the store.
Woolworths went into administration at the end of last year, closing all 800 of its UK stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs.
The Chingford store officially ceased trading on January 2 this year amid swarms of bargain hungry shoppers, keen to buy up the last of its stock.
The former Woolworths shops have been specifically targeted for takeover by 99p Stores and there are plans for a further 40 to be reopened by the chain before the end of the year.
Comments(13)
Heartly
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1:32pm Tue 23 Jun 09
With so many empty shops down there we need a butcher a baker a candlestick maker.
Gus Tovind
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2:32pm Tue 23 Jun 09
The guv wrote:Yeah, great idea (NOT). Let's turn the whole country into one giant Tescos!!!
That just what chingford does not need, the mount already has a few of these. what about a tesco's now that would be good
www.tescopoly.org
ferdy55
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3:16pm Tue 23 Jun 09
So I assume they'll close the other shop over the road or will there be 2 of them open? Plus Poundland, or whatever its called, in Cherrydown Avenue & the other one recently opened along Old Church Road.
I cant wait!!!
Walthamster
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3:31pm Tue 23 Jun 09
A council that did its job would encourage a better range of shops, before the place goes so downmarket that no trader would want to move into it.
The guv
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3:31pm Tue 23 Jun 09
Hugh Jed
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4:00pm Tue 23 Jun 09
The guv wrote:Correction, Chingford Mount is already a complete dump. I only went there for Woolworths. Does anyone else miss that.
Exactly we don't need any more pound shop, pound saver, pound what ever. Chingford mount is gradually turning into a miserable looking place.
ferdy55
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4:24pm Tue 23 Jun 09
Hugh Jed wrote:I still do. Went past it Saturday. I always think it must be a mistake that its closed & expect it to suddenly open again.
The guv wrote: Exactly we don't need any more pound shop, pound saver, pound what ever. Chingford mount is gradually turning into a miserable looking place.Correction, Chingford Mount is already a complete dump. I only went there for Woolworths. Does anyone else miss that.
It may have had its faults but it was quite harmless. I'm one of those 'oldies' that grew up with Woolies.
What sort of accountants did they have that they couldnt see what was happening with the business & could have made some sort of effort to save it?
leytonstoner
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8:55pm Tue 23 Jun 09
Hugh Jed wrote:I'm gutted e4 has lost such an upmarket shop as woolworths - oh well chinford turning into a miserable place to go with the miserable residents !
The guv wrote: Exactly we don't need any more pound shop, pound saver, pound what ever. Chingford mount is gradually turning into a miserable looking place.Correction, Chingford Mount is already a complete dump. I only went there for Woolworths. Does anyone else miss that.
The Stowaway
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9:32pm Tue 23 Jun 09
hotredman
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4:01am Wed 24 Jun 09
Heartly, I think a Woolworths building would be far to big for a butcher, baker or candlestick maker in Chingford Mount. If you feel that way you open one and see how much you would loose out.
Ferdy what a foolish coment about saying it would make the mount upmarket. That part of Chingford is far from anywhere near upmarket (so did Woolworths make it upmarket??) Never though woolworths was upmarket in anyway, the stuff sold inside was hardly John Lewis.
Chingford Mount is full of yob hoody Asbo youth generation, plying the streets daily up to no good.
As for poundsaver, poundplus etc. the variety is no where near that of 99p stores. It is like saying the small greengrocers that often have supermarket on there shop name is an alternative to Tesco, Sainsburys etc. it simply is NOT.
Jeanette
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6:55am Wed 24 Jun 09
Pamella
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10:01am Wed 24 Jun 09
at least the shop will be open, too many high streets are becoming desolate with empty shops everywhere...
The guv says...
1:25pm Tue 23 Jun 09