Yes but Kennedy did it well

That’s wonderful

That's great to hear. I left school in 1988 and went onto a training scheme with a local company. Worked for two years for £35 a week and then got the boot when the two years were up and was replaced by another school leaver on the same scheme. So unfortunately those schemes were also abused by companies looking to exploit heap labour as well as I found out. They also ignored my pleas for a reference (which apparently they were allowed to) when I did finally find something else so they screwed me over twice. I did finally get a lucky break but it was a long time coming and no thanks to them. But I'm glad to hear not everybody had a bad experience.

Well, let’s make them friendly again.

One ☝️ example is Kirkcaldy, Fife.

I know exactly what you mean. I wouldn't set foot in Birmingham again if you paid me.

Not forgetting the rude self entitled disrespectful staff..no manners or customer sensitivity.

@@Baldrick_dogsbody. Yip,,,I agree 100% Aggressive unruly staff seem to be in all four major supermarkets.

Cassettes for me....

Spending money earned on the paper round 😂

Oh yeah, you were stuffed if there were two singles released the same week that you wanted to buy with your £1 a week pocket money. I remember having to be patient when Jonah Lewie and Queen had big hit singles in the charts in the same week in December 1980. I bought Queen ('Flash') first and then had to wait a whole week to buy Jonah Lewie (Stop the Cavalry). That was about the same time John Lennon was killed. My parents neighbour was really upset about that. I had heard of the Beatles but didn't really know who he was at the time. 'Imagine' was re-released very quickly after and I think it may even have been number 1 that Christmas.

Saturday morning down putney high street with my mates in the mid 70s

@@trevorbrown6654 Imagine reached number one at the beginning of the new year (1981). Stop The Cavalry by Jona Lewie ought to have been the Christmas number one, instead it was Saint Winifred's School Choir with the dire 'There's No One Quite Like Grandma.' I blame that on Lennon's death.

It is nostalgic. They were great fixtures but so many just didn’t keep up with the times. I remember BHS cafes were terrible and costly. Littlewoods lost to Primark basically. Some of the other department stores just lost the plot. You went for service and there was never anyone on the shop floor. Many were just destined to fail - some unscrupulous investors - but also a complete slowness to adapt.

these 'iconic' shops existed for one reason and one reason only, and that was to make (and maximise ) profits, and i don't feel in the slightest bit 'lucky' then or now to live under the jack boot of capitalism.

@@johnlakin5895 We had a different capitalism prior to Thatcher. I've heard it called Keynesian as opposed to neo-liberal. I think it was better as it saw some of the best improvement in living standards ever seen in history in western europe after ww2. It wasn't perfect but it was more grounded in national sovereignty and more condusive social cohesion rather than stock market fluctuations. Even if luxury products were proportionally more expensive. Big business/monied interests jumped at the opportunity to dismantle it after the oil crisis threw the system off whack. Not saying neo-liberalism didn't create a wealthier country though, it did. But for various reasons the system which is heavily dependent on continual growth (which is not always possible in a finite unpredictable world) seems broken now almost like its beyond the point of repair.

Capitalism stunk then and it stinks now....abolish it....socialism is long overdue.

​@RichieRich1234RICH To be fair the BHS cafes weren't that good were they?

The Woolworths in my town has never had another shop use the building since it closed.

@@Raven4508 I have seen a few of those. Very sad to see :-(

This is really surprising as Woolies are massive in Australia, similar to your Tesco.

@@RitchieCollins The Aussies just stole the name, not associated with the UK store in any way. The UK store was more of a poor mans BHS than an out and out supermarket like Woolies AU.

RIP Wilco - Woolworths 2023.

Thank you! I've been scratching my head trying to remember the name of the lady in the thumbnail. She's a lovely lady. P.S. I've never watched Holly Willoughby on TV

@@Gynra She used to be everywhere in the seventies especially advertising

Yes, she definitely had a neater 'arris.

Willoughby's day's are numbered, she's a disgrace

@@Geoff4822 that's 70s saucy inneundo bring back Sid James as well

Yes, and tattoo parlours, nail bars, kebab shops, poundland, etc

And vape shops 😔

So agree. Firstly you get robbed by the authority for parking your car, then outcome the chuggers with big plastic buckets wanting (not cash) but direct debits. There's no joy going shopping any more but the likes of Amazon killed the high street and the online shopper enabled them.

@@BB-wc9jx I don't mind saying that some of these premises attract the wrong type of clientele, doing the area no good at all.

Quite right, today's UK high street is indicative of a really bad economy. Even the once proud and forward looking Malls are becoming economic wastelands, boarded up or leased for peanuts as charity shops. Don't blame ONLINE SHOPPING that is what they want you to believe and it is fake news. High streets and Malls in Europe are doing well and believe it or not, they too have the internet and bloody eBay. The truth is simple, we are individually noticeably much poorer than our European counterparts. Underpaid and over taxed we have less to spend.

I got a gilt badge from woolies The Beatles it said. 2 shillings and 6 pence. I wish i still had it.

@@priscillaroberts7945 Now there's a subject for a t.v. show - items you gave or threw away but now wish you'd kept. But if there's one thing from my youth that I miss and would like returned...well, that'd be my youth.

@@teeteringonthebrink.305 don't look at me ,i haven't got it. X

Some great names there

Yes indeed dad used to always pronounce it rumBELLOWS😂😂😂😂

Don’t forget Ravel to, I used to love their shoes.

​@Paul Woodbridge lol tell me about it I'm forever correcting people as it is my surname and yes my family started that shop way back when

I met my husband outside of Freeman Hardy and Willis on a blind date back in the 70s. How cool is that!

I agree - it used to be the go-to shop for books! Then Amazon came along...

I know , our store in Hemel Hempstead has closed cos apparently " the landlord wanted to sell it for flats " what ? Bang in the middle of a shopping centre ? 'Effing ridiculous. I mean , it's just the end of an era .

Reading WHSmith has posters up about their new toys r us section being open. They're definitely lost their way, they're next to a dedicated toy shop FFS.

I think you might be right. Bookshops and record shops. RIP.

WHSmith are closing high street stores and have substantially reduced its HQ staffing levels. They will likely continue to trade in airports/hospitals/train stations. I guess most people don’t know that they are a global company with travel retail stores all over the world. This is their main source of income and not the tired looking U.K. high street stores. They also own funky pigeon and cult pens.

It's all about shopping online now

The point is shopping was not just that. Whilst out one met friends or made new ones. Browsing and getting new ideas was part of the experience. I feel sorry for Gen Z , our life was lived in colour ,for todays young it's insipid black and white.

​@@johnroekoek9864the Netherlands, too.

@@ShaCaroShaCaro Totally agree with you. My grandkids don't do it. They shop on line all the time and just go to Mcdonalds for an outing.

They don't want people mixing,divide and control.wait till they get rid of money then its complete control.

The Globalists (Communists) have taken away all of our nations much loved British highstreet stores and replaced them with multinational corporate ones leaving us with homoginised high streets that all look alike. Welcome to the New World Order guys.

I remember buying an internet from comet. Saw the advert one TV, all the internet you can eat for £20 for the whole year. Can't remember the company name but I think they regretted it straight away. Their dial-up access number was 0800, the first ISP to do that. Freeserve! of course it was.

Army & Navy and Alders also spring to mind as well.

​@@satyris410freeserve, owned by dixons

Those were the days!

Maybe you'll remember the sixpenny Cherilea Daleks as well. .

Oh yes, the Pick N’ Mix. Good memories.

pick'n'mix was so much fun; fizzy cola bottles.

Don’t forget the broken biscuits

Amen to all!! 👍👍

Oh how very true, many now full of rough sleepers, sadly.

@@Steve14ps Gimme shelter. Ghoststowns. The consumer machine moves on.

I think shops would have done better if they opened for longer, maybe even 24/7... when the internet was creeping up most town centers would only have one day where they would open 'late' (till 7pm or 8pm), so if you wanted anything and finished work between 4 and 6 you were either rushing (which is not fun), or having to go shopping on the weekend when it was busy (which is also not fun. lol). Also one thing I don't miss is the annoyance of going to a store and them not having what you want or sold out, making you feel like you wasted time.

⁠​⁠@@Zauchibrick and mortar shops can’t compete like that. They can’t open 24/7, well they could but would lose money. They have costs like staff and energy bills and would likely get hardly any footfall at 3am on a Tuesday morning. Online is open 24/7 for the low cost of a server and has fully automated payment processing. High street shopping has gone for good and will never come back. Even if any given govt slashed business rates they still won’t be as competitive because fixed costs are always going to be higher.

@@Zauchi "Also one thing I don't miss is the annoyance of going to a store and them not having what you want or sold out, making you feel like you wasted time." That is where internet shopping has succeeded, you no longer have to traipse from shop to shop looking for what you want, it doesn't matter if what you want is in John O'Groats or Lands End, it will be posted to you! I said I would never do internet shopping, but.............

Timothy White's forever immortalised in Dad's Army

Golden Egg…first weekend job I had - waiting in the Orpington branch. 45p/hr😁

Lipton. The makers of tea that you only get if you go on holiday and don't pack English tea bags.

@@SuzanneO707 I’d forgotten that Lipton’s still made tea. I was thinking of Lipton’s supermarkets.

@@missworm Last time I went to Paris the Liptons teabags with strings were in hotel room and got them if you ordered tea in the cafes. Some are lemon tea. To be honest, its probably best forgotten. Lol.

I remember Miners make up ...

@@Raven4508 They used to sell little glass animals, jewellery, clothes and framed wall pictures at one time. I still have a little pink glass elephant from there and a pendant my best friend at junior school bought me for my birthday. The stones are only glass but it's pretty and now has sentimental value.

I remember getting my posters from there as a kid and the pick n mix. Ah, the good old days.

Woolworths sold their own brand records called Embassy. I still have an EP of trad jazz tracks! It was also the first place I knew that sold videos !!

@@janewalker3921All the Embassy songs were covers. I was disappointed to buy a Beatles record only to discover it wasn't the Beatles singing it.

David, I'm 65 and bludy scared! Really apprehensive about Artificial Intelligence. I think everyone should be.

It's nice to read how confident you are of reaching 81...health and circumstances permitting of course.

@@teeteringonthebrink.305 I'm certain of it. I think late 90's is my end point.

@@davidthomas-ot4cl With such a positive attitude like that, how can you fail? You have my genuine good wishes.

@zoefoster1873 Guess what? You weren't the only ones. We boys were just as bad. We used to hold up bra and knicker sets against each other for the embarrassment factor. We had such laughs but it was all harmless fun.

Yes we did that too, I'd forgotten about the hats 👒 Good harmless fun.

I used to pretend to be a mannequin in C&A window and made passers by jump by suddenly moving or pulling a face 😂

I still have some BHS jumpers that I wear regularly - I will need to retire some soon though, as they are getting motheaten!

As young teenagers, my sister and I used to go shoplifting in BHS. It used to make us laugh uncontrollably. Simple, happy times!

I miss Woolworths too. My mum worked there in the 1950s, she was on the stationery counter!

C&A is still here in the Netherlands 😄

Far, FAR, more simpler to use an app. What rose tinted planet are you living on?

@@Russellye5man1 You think technologies are rose tinted? You seen the toxic sweat shops that produce the mobbies? And the horrible waste dumps that all that crap goes into, usually in some third world country. Not saying that we should wallow in nostalgia, but things race ahead and its hard for some people to to handle or relate to.

@@SuzanneO707 presume you typed that on an electronic device 🤭👏

@@Russellye5man1 Of course, but the production of devices, and the waste it ultimately creates should be much better. You can't do much these days without owning a device of some sort. All the banks and most of the shops have upped sticks in my town . Just think it can all be a bit daunting for some people.

I am surprised that Woolworths was still somewhere that kids loved 20 years ago. As a kid in London in the 1970s, I would have thought that the 70s were its heyday with kids for the pic n mix, Airfix models, cheap paperbacks, records and cassettes etc. Just on Saturday, as I entered the Art Deco building which had been a Woolies - the main part of which is now an Iceland - I was thinking of my primary school days buying sweets in Woolies which seemed to have everything you could want when you were young. My parents even bought our sitting room table [circular glass panel in square top] from Woolies in 1973. But as I grew older and richer, I never went to Woolies even though there was one right near me as we didn't buy the cheap stuff [and there was a Poundstretchers opposite competing with it from the 1990s] bar the odd extension lead or lightbulb. Then in 2007 I bought a DVD player from Woolies [and they mistakenly sent me 2 by mistake] my first Woolies purchase for years. Nonetheless, I felt great nostalgic sadness as it shut down in 2009 as I did with the BHS shutting a few years later which I had visited occasionally.

@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 if you're going back 50 years with all these memories just goes to show how right they got the whole shopping experience. Shame it died the way it did. Guess online ruined everything. I hope It'll make a comeback one day. Would love my kids to experience what we did as kids

I loved buying records from Woolworths in the 70s but couldn't understand why they had their own "charts" displayed which didn't match the official top 40 lol😅

A couple of weeks ago I was watching some repeats of the Channel 5 show The Cotswalds with Pam Ayres [born in 1947]. I think it was in the episode in which the ex-newsreader Anne Diamond [also from that region] appeared that both spoke of their childhood memories at the local Woolworths which out in rural England must have been even more special given the lack of competing shops.

I’m old enough to remember Woolworths it wasn’t that amazing. THe only really cool thing about it was the pick and mix and we often weren’t allowed to get those unless parents were feeling generous. The toys were kind of mediocre compared to proper toy shops or even other department stores. The stationary and books were better in other places as well like WHSmith’s or Waterstones. I was a bit young to be interested in CDs at the time but they seemed to have a wider selection in places like HMV. I imagine the real advantage was price and having lots of things in one place. But you don’t really notice price as a child. That model of business still exist to some extent in places like B&M and boyes. But I can’t say Woolworths ever really appealed to me that much as a child outside pick n mix. Really if I’m honest I miss DVD and video rental shops a lot more. Imagine a world where all the movies you might want to watch are all in one place instead of spread across multiple different services that you have to pay subscription fees to access. That used to be my reality.

Things were neat and folded right.

Ah the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.

@@garyfreeman896 ... No its actually true, people were far more friendly, sociable and well mannered years ago.

@@martinwebb1681 It's nice to remember it like that but it's not true.

@@garyfreeman896 ... Well maybe not from where you were from, but certainly was the case for me.

My 16 year old daughter , is into the High street. She prefers it, I think. She won't speak to me., but she trawls charity shops, for old school fashion, which is what I did. Back in the day. I couldn't even afford C&A. There was just one Oxfam in my town, and that's gone. And she nicks my music, cassettes, and vinyl. Lol.

I agree. With the decline in the local high street there is no sense of community . There's hardly anyone around because of lack of shops, so I never bump into anyone I know like I used to. With so many people working from home, buying online (including groceries), it's creating a society where there's no need to leave home! I have noticed more people having takeaways delivered as well, rather than popping into their local branch.

@@jacquelinepearson2288 My town never had a big town centre but it had most of the basics served by independents and chains. Most gone now like Co-Op, Zodiac, Blockbusters, Dixons, Curries, Rumbelows, Woollies, International. Mostly replaced by Pound shops, coffee shops and crap restaurants. W H Smiths is still technically open but how I have no idea, I haven't seen a customer go in there for years.

Thank landlords and investment companies for buying property and jacking up the rents to stupid amounts that people would rather just close up than pay and what else doesn't help is the rates some councils charge just put off business even wanting to bother in the first place.

@@jacquelinepearson2288 if it's any comfort, times change for better or for worse.

Oh wow, what great memories they must be.

Aww Dolcis...I loved that shop❤

Trueform and freeman hardy willis

@@romystumpy1197 OMG!!! Yes!!😄

So did I. They had great styles for teenage girls/ twenty somethings in the 1980s.

When you mentioned Chelsea Girl, I instantly remembered Bus Stop. Remember them? I loved Wallis as I hit 20 thinking it was 'better class' ! Oh my! But, Bus Stop to me in Edinburgh then, was very fashionable for the girl in her teens though it wasn't exactly cheap. After I bought a new outfit, it was off to Ravel for matching shoes - the higher the better. Those were the days.

I think Wilkinson stores saw off Woolies.

@@flybobbie1449 they seem to be the modern equivalent of Woolies.

@@flybobbie1449 Woolies was a much larger company than Wilkinson. 813 Woolworths to 408 Wilcos at their peaks. Woolies just didn't modernise and so were left behind. They should have dropped a few of their lines, like 'White' goods and they might have made it.

I miss Woolies the most. When we were kids back in the 50s 60s, my mum used to buy our plastic summer sandals there and my brother's trouser belts with the metal S shape fastening. Sometimes we were allowed a quarter of Jazz Drops as a treat.

@@amandaduggan9051 oh God yes, the S shape fastening belts! I'd completely forgotten about them until you just mentioned it!

It was great wasn’t it Shoe shops Freeman Hardy Willis … Fosters, Chelsea Girl,

Menzies are still going strong in 🇬🇧 They specialise in Warehouse and Aviation.

Yes, I remember Menzes. They were competitors to WH Smiths, they were never quite as good but still great.

I remember my Mum buying me my first pair of football boots from Woolies, around 1975, for about 4 quid (couldn’t afford a brand like Adidas back then). They were yellow, with black stripes & kinda looked like Adidas boots. But, they weren’t & I was teased mercilessly for wearing a pair of ‘bananas’. Fucking uncomfortable, too!

@@razzle1964 yes I think one of or the main brand was Gola but that was 50 years ago so I could be mistaken?

@@smiffyLevel6 Yeah, Gola rings a bell.

John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch 🎶🎶

We had a big Co-op in Walsall, top floor was a ballroom. Also account dept with those vacuum tubes for sending money around the store.

@@flybobbie1449 I remember those tubes. The big Co-op in Liverpool had them also, as did Blackler's, part of The T J Hughes local chain

@@harpersmythe658 Remember the tympani bit at the end?

@@harpersmythe658 you beat me to it 😆

I went on a behind the scenes tour at a Presto from my school as a kid.

@@CartmanUK26 can you remember what your impressions were?

I use to half inch a sweet or two from the sweety section (Farnham, Surrey), sorry about that!

​@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 Ha ha! When I was in primary school some of the older boys would talk about getting toys and Airfix models from the free counter in Woolworths. I was so innocent I was surprised when I couldn't find the free counter. Then the penny dropped and I realised that they were stealing. I wouldn't have had the nerve to do it because I knew what would happen at home if I was caught 😂😂😂

I worked in Woolworths around 1964, that's when they sold fruit & veg. I worked on that counter.

Woolworth I used to go with my dad to get some sweets of sweety counter always taste better at Woolworth I lived in a sweet shop 😊

Had my first job there to, four hours on a Saturday when I was 15, full day when I was 16. I then worked there full time, toiletries department then make up counter. Great days 👍👍👍👍

Grace Brothers

Love C&A - went to Boden in France very recently and saw C & A - had to go in - as still a going concern, wish they would open stores again in the UK

Still alive and well in spain, but not somewhere i would shop today. Still 1990´s fasion, although maybe that´s back in fasion???

I loved C and A as well!

What great days they were.

I used to catch the train to Nottingham just to browse around beatties. I was into tamiya radio controlled cars at the time.

I agree , missing Richard’s shops, used to buy dresses there, good quality and decent materials. Also Laura Ashley and also M&S, which has not gone, but quality has left them.

@@joyelmes7814yes I agree and with M&S also being very expensive now, for boring and not great quality clothing.

My mum bought me a maxi coat in Richards Shops back in the 60s. I still have it to this day. Clothes were better quality back in the day. There was a clothes shop called Kibby's in our local town which catered for all ages where you could buy clothes on account and pay something off the total each week!

C&A still exist. Just not in the UK.

loved Richard Shops, until recently I still had a top from there. Its quite sad thinking about all the losses. Absolutely loved Woolies, spent my childhood there with my dad buying me little notebooks. and yes Clock House was where I got so many of my clothes. C & A was always the first choice. Got the most beautiful summer sundress there about 1982, wish I had kept it!!!

Now that's what you call a quality jumper!

Online shopping is a hit and miss affair. You cant see the quality of what you get.

@bogusmogus9551 I go to the shop first for hands-on and only buy know brands.

P.S. Does anyone remember Hillards supermarket?

Very true!

True, but that's our fault mostly, had we all not deserted the high street in favour of giant superstores and more recently the Internet then the possibility of them being able to exist could well have still been here. Unfortunately convenience comes at a cost, but they are at least great memories. 👍

Its all charity shops and monstrous supermarkets. But I think thats inevitable . In the system we have?

Saturday shopping was nothing short of great back in the 80's and 90's despite having less money back then. The opposite is where we are now though. More money but nothing much to get excited about spending it on these days.

@martindunstan8043 I think it's more the internet. Younger people just want to sit with a computer or mobile and play games and order items . People have got lazier

Oh boy, i used to love going to Wimpy, it was always a family treat

Actually Wimpy still exists. It doesn’t have many sites around the country but there are still a few.

@@c0d3w4rri0r ... Its not the original Wimpy, that went in 2007. The Wimpy you are referring to are owned by Famous Brands which is a South African company.

@@martinwebb1681 er I mean it got sold but I wouldn't say that makes it not the original. For example House of Fraser has been bought and sold several times.

@@c0d3w4rri0r ... Yes, but the original wimpy menu has long gone, so its nothing like the same.

When I got married in 1985, Presto was my local supermarket, thanks for reminding me about it, I thought it had always been Safeway, but theres a vague Presto memory there!!!

Ah, Kwik Save. You got get a Swiss roll, 2 packs of crisps, and a big bottle of lemonade for less than a pound.

It didn't bring back any memories because fine fare is a load of bollocks the guy made up for padding

wow, Saxone, always went there for all my shoes. got a shock when I discovered theyve gone, and Dolcis too, where do people buy their shoes now, I live in trainers and any occasion shoes probably go to Marks and Spencer.

Littlewoods is mentioned.

@@elliej11j68 Oh no it isn't ! I have just rewatched the video and neither saw nor heard any mention of it

@@elliej11j68 nope, watch again!

I'll probably do a part 2 to this video so will definitely give Littlewoods a well-deserved mention there.

@@stuviewtv brilliant! Thanks.

Glad you liked the video. Many thanks! Oh yes, Dunn & Co - that's another proper blast from the past.

What a beautifully written comment. You did Manchester proud there. Greeting from town!

C&A still exist in the Netherlands 😊

Radio shack

Tandy

@@silverline6935 Forgot that one. Yeah, gadgets.

So glad you enjoyed it! Many thanks.

​@@stuviewtvwe had a Woolworths here in Dublin and i can still remember the resturant on the top floor....sadly they pulled out of Ireland in the late 80s as (from what i heard) they had been threatned by the ira that if they didnt close the shop they would be burned down

Bittersweet, nostalgic and a bit sad 😢❤

It’s in France and Germany still

Yes I still have a C&A herringbone coat which must be around fifty years old. And some shirts and chino's which are more recent . The quality is great. I still shop at C&A when I go abroad. Snidey "comedians" used to make lazy jokes about C&A like they did about Skoda. But Skoda have made an impressive comeback so fingers crossed.

C&A advert "Doo-doo doo-doo. Doo-doo doo-doo."

@@DB-np2vg The whole lot was built like tanks. If you buy something now, it disintegrates if too breath on it.

The netherlands still has c&a

I’ve just put a satin pyjama shorts and top set off to charity a few months ago. They had the ‘Canda’ label, which I remembered fondly and associated with C & A. I remember the clock house label too - quite sure I still have a few of these items in a wardrobe somewhere with that label on. They must be 30 years old at least, but that’s when clothes were made to last.

and hateful people

So true , and you see the damage that they have done on a daily basis…..

@Mr Nobody 💔

Shopping hasn’t gone anywhere 😂😂😂😂 every single supermarket is always busy, all the main shopping centres are too. Have you never been to the Trafford centre? It’s always heaving. Love Trafford

It’s the people that let them get away with it and always forget by the time of the next election.

Yep. Fond memories of all those. My favourite bright pink dungarees from C&A, sleepsuits for my daughter from Woolworths, lunch with said daughter in BHS - I remember the sadness of the staff when they closed in Lewisham. Debenhams - great for bedding and kitchen ware plus all the concessions like Principles. The high streets have so little personality these days.

@@sarac.3259 those were the good old days hen. Just memories now. God bless. Love and respect from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 👍🏼

You really think that a capitalist organisation like a chain of shops really defines a town , please go and stand in the corner and give your head a wobble, you want everything the same as you remember it, that’s not how life works , things change , we don’t wear flares anymore either

Now you know it is on the way out when M&S leave.

They didn’t “leave” they went bankrupt

Co-Op

I think Green Shield stamps were issued with petrol?

Tesco

I have wondered that, as they have Woolworths in South Africa and they have food departments.

@yolandasamuels3213 They have Woolworths in Australia, too.

Glad you enjoyed the memories. Many thanks!

John Menzies a shoplifter paradise

@@IssacLHunt Like Woolies. They put blue lights in the toilets to repel shooter uppers.

@@SuzanneO707 what the dickens are you talking about you mad cat hoarder?

We had one in the Wirral, it became WH Smiths!

I was just thinking to myself why no John Menzies . Then finally seen this comment. No surprise it ended everyone stole from Menzies lol.