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Tagged ‘Woolworths’
Woolworths is rising from the grave as an online only store after being bought out by the owners of the Daily Telegraph.
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Woolies began its 50% off mega-sale last week. Sadly, it had ‘up to’ written as a myopically small pre-fix and all we found was a lousy 10% off Mirror’s Edge. Now though, administrator Deloitte is beginning to discount in earnest as it moves to closing down status in order to clear out all the remaining stock, having failed to find a buyer for the ailing retail group.
The demise of long-serving high street chain Woolworths was a shame, but we’re really not going to miss all those pick-n-mix sweets, the shelves full of one hit wonder chart singles and the many teen angst mags. What we’d definitely like to see is Woolies stores being turned into giant video game emporiums instead. And that might actually happen; US games retail giant GameStop is believed to have made a bid for roughly half of the 815 defunct stores.
Stop! Lunch time! But before you chomp down on that sandwich, have a quick squiz at all the tech news you’ve missed today, there’s a good chap.
Those with a delicate constitution might want to look away as we reveal ALCATEL’s first ever ‘completely bespoke’ handset for Woolies – the unbelievably vile lilac and green OTS319.
Following the Xbox 360 price drop frenzy in the US Woolworths will now be slashing the price of all Xbox 360 models in the UK.