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I have to buy picture hooks.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 13 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm back, but the ones I wanted were sold out.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

and you didn't buy picture Books instead?

― erik, Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"I have to buy picture hooks" - October 13th, 2002

"I'm back, but the ones I wanted were sold out" - October 14th, 2002

You were gone a long time, weren't you? Hope you didn't get lost or anything.

I love Woolies, btw. They sell great stuff.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

oh I went to Wickes too! heh!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

You should have tried a Big W.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Was it a game? Like "see how many places beginning with W you can visit in one day?"

Did you go to Wilkinson's?

And Wimpy's?

― C J (C J), Sunday, 13 October 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time I was in Woolies a nun was stocking up on pik 'n mix.

― DavidM (DavidM), Sunday, 13 October 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

She was sent out for communion wafers - woulda liked to be a fly on THAT convent wall.

erm... Waitrose / Waterstones / What Everyone Wants (haven't yet dared to go into one of their stores... I mean - is it TRUE?)

― stevie mitch, Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I got some cash out from the woolwich.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to know more about the nun. Was she buying Rum'n'Raisin fudge, or Raspberry Ruffles? I think it speaks volumes about living within the envelope of religious servitude.

I was going to ask about the Woolwich, but jel beat me to it!BR>
What Everyone Wants........I went there once. They had nothing I wanted :(

― C J (C J), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What Everyone Wants (haven't yet dared to go into one of their stores... I mean - is it TRUE?)

Well, if what everyone wants is cheapish socks where the top hem is a different length each time and where the black dye might not last very many washes. (This is what I sometimes want and I have not had any problems with the dye yet. The hems are all different lengths but I should stop being so damn picky because nobody is going to look at my ankles in that much detail, I hope.) Also the Swindon branch has a shop assistant who looks amusingly like Craig David, which may or may not be higher up your want list.

World of Leather? World of Carpets?

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

What Craig David Wants - Socks that last 7 days.

― stevie mitch, Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Craig David wd probably wear the socks on his head though

― C J (C J), Sunday, 13 October 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Socks to Craig David: "Can you fill me iiiinnnn ?"

― stevie mitch, Sunday, 13 October 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Woolies used to sell really cute balls of fur. When you squeezed them they giggled, and made cats look really unimpressed. Maybe the last bit was just me

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Monday, 14 October 2002 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to woolworths again now.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 14 October 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ikea sell a little box filled with everything-you-could-ever-possibly-want-to-hang-a-picture for £2. I know coz I seem to live there at the moment (even though I vowed I'd never set foot in the place). Doesn't start with W though....

― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 14 October 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

[jel is really looking for the John Otway single. THEY ARE NOT SELLING IT. GIVE UP.]

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 October 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

[and it's REALLY, REALLY SHIT as well]

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 14 October 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

ah, this was a classic.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm jealous that you guys still have woolworth's

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't you have it anymore ron?

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 5 January 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

no :-(
where are you at dh?? uk right?

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

we still have the Woolworth's Building (in downtown Manhattan)

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, ron, scotland (glasgow) - we have loads. where you at, nz?

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Woolworth's is gone from Canada too. They used to have one downtown where I went to highschool, with one of the old style 'greasy spoon' lunch counters down one side - you got your drinks in these weird paper CONES that sat in things that looked like giant egg cups. Does anywhere in the world still use those things?

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm in seattle. there has been no woolworth's for a long long time, 15 years???

oh yeah, i have faint memories of these department stores with the diners in. the cone drink thingy must have been an attempt at maximum rip-off factor. "how can we minimize the volume of this beverage compared to the size of the cup??"

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that one of our woolworth's has laid decrepit this whole time, although i might be getting the buildings mixed up. and this building is smack dab in the middle of downtown, you'd think it would be too valuable real estate-wise to lay fallow

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it let them make a 'cup' from just one flimsy little strip of paper too.. more environmentally friendly than a giant, waxy Super Big Gulp cup I suppose.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

kim or david will you play jeopardy with me and graham please

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

oh ok - hang on.. will probably have to close down the real audio thing I've got on....

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 5 January 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

graham and i are almost done with a game but it's not acting too well

― ron (ron), Sunday, 5 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Woolworth's left Pittsburgh in 1986, I believe

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to Woolworth's in Abingdon today. They have a brilliant sale on. I bought an electric toolkit for engraving on glass for £5!! (I am not sure why, as I have never yearned to engrave any glass before, but it just seemed such a fantastic bargain. I've just engraved the word "pasta" onto my glass pasta jar. Again, I don't know why. It's not like I've ever had any trouble remembering what the jar was for or anything.

But still! Bargain!

That's the Wonder of Woolies.

― C J (C J), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll have three quids worth of pic n mix please.

― baggy (baggy), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course in WWII during the blitz and all the dentists had been conscripted to doctor in the army you could buy pic'n'mix teeth in Woolies which had come from the mouths of dead people to try and find a decent match.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

really ?

― baggy (baggy), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a shame they phased that out.

― C J (C J), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Its things like that that people never think about when they plunge us into interminable wars. Where will we get out dentures from.

A similar trade in prosthetic limbs goes on to this day - but not in Woolies.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I've moved on, I'm off to Tesco's now see ya.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Allegedly you can buy wildflower seeds in Tescos but I have never seen them. I want some for my gloomy yard.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you get me a bag of Doritos please

― omg, Friday, 23 January 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Woolies has gone into administration.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7751064.stm

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

I just bought a lamp in their world-famous Roman Road store and the cashier was super nice, though you can obviously tell the whole chain's got supply problem because there what was on the shelves there was only one of and at least a quarter of the shelf space was empty.

Plenty of crap plastic crap toys and Wii games, though.

Also the lamp cost £4.68 and I used a 10% off voucher.

― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

It's been on its last legs for, what, five years? They are/were quite depressing stores to go into, everything just seemed to be piled high and/or thrown anywhere.

― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

MFI has gone too.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5812/imageuploadimagenc1.jpg

― sheepie (libcrypt), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

No more pick n mixes?

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

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your own proportional preference of penny chews, which are of a consistently better quality than prepacked, imho.

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:56 (sixteen years ago)

"Your bag is dangerously empty"

o_O
...oh and it'll stay empty, because not only are they exorbitantly overpriced, they are also the horrible cheap sweets that I hate. Just buy a bag of eclairs, a bag of sherbet lemons, and a back of pear drops, and you're done.

PENNY CHEWS

Remember when they abolished the halfpenny and the cost of Fruit Salads doubled overnight? My first brush with inflation.

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:59 (sixteen years ago)

i don't want a whole bag of eclairs, i want 3.

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:01 (sixteen years ago)

Glad to see snoball's got my back here, I was about to recant and beg for indulgence.

― Stobby Buld (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:02 (sixteen years ago)

i'd rather be lonely and right, tbh

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:04 (sixteen years ago)

Slartibartfast: "I'd much rather be happy than right any day."
Arthur: "And are you?"
Slartibartfast: "No. That's where it all falls down, I'm afraid."

(xpost) Yeah, I remember when cheap sweets were actually cheap, thus at least partly justifying their crappiness. Fruit Salads excepted of course, because they ruled.

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:05 (sixteen years ago)

Didn't really like Fruit Salads but at least they weren't Blackjacks. Have Blackjacks been banned by the so-called Politically Correct Brigade yet?

― Stobby Buld (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

I guess what I'm saying really is I will eat Pick'n'Mix but I am too tight to buy it.

― Stobby Buld (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

remember when Wham Bars were 3 times the size they are now and actually had fizzy bits in them?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:08 (sixteen years ago)

(said with yorkshire accent)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:08 (sixteen years ago)

fruit salads are a good solid 7/10 effort, but a good lemon bonbon struts all over that shit.

i was going to mention blackjacks as a favourite, but remembered about the golliwog packaging just in time.

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:08 (sixteen years ago)

lololol I thought I remembered the golliwog on the wrapper.

The day they took the lit end off sweet cigarettes was when I knew the UK was fucked tbh.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, how are you meant to know which end is which now?

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

I actually used to really like Blackjacks. They're still made.

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/black-jacks-p-413.html

There's a newsagents near me that still has big feck off Willy Wonka style jars of sweets in the window.

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

Tons of places in Hull City and Environs where you can buy sweets from jars. There's also a super-dope sweetshop in York that make the sourest apple sours in the universe.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

http:///www.aquarterof.co.uk

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:14 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, even better than pick n mix is getting some geriatric to climb a ladder for your confectionaries. especially when he sells them to you in weights that don't even exist anymore.

"i'll have a 1/4 troy of bullseyes, thanks"

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

One for noodle vague
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/save_the_fountain.php

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/customers-in-a-fizz-over-sweetshop-favourite-1674736.html

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

i'm amazed that they still sell sherbet in any packaging- that stuff has to be some kind of nuclear waste

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

I can see a plastic tube working better cos the sherbet won't stick. Nostalgists are the worst.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

A Quarter Of are great though. You can get mouth puckering acid drops from them!
check the link.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

nostalgists have gone to shit

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

Also I like to mainline my sherbet cos fuck a licorice.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

I hate licorice.I used to eat the sherbet and give my mum or dad the licorice

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

This is a good a thread as any to ask - that foam shit on the back of some Haribo's or those new Rowntree's Randoms. What is the fucking point of it?

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

(xxxpost) nostalgia isn't what it used to be...

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

whats your fave sweets on that site NV?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

I'm actually not the biggest sweet-tooth in the world, but always got time for expensive jelly beans, mini Jelly Babies, fudge and anything cherry flavoured.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/fizzy-cherry-cola-bottles-p-66.html ?
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/images/fizzycherrycola.jpg

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

shanemacgowansoldteeth.jpg

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:33 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously, looking at that picture is burning holes in my enamel.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:34 (sixteen years ago)

Cherry cola bottles don't really taste of cherry tho, Neither do those cherry lips things half the time.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:42 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/images/mouthpuckering_canon.jpg

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:44 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/images/fizz_wiz_cherry.jpg

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

fizzy cherry cola bottles were the best. i had to give them up.

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

LJ used that once^

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

I've got a bag of real cherries here so they win.

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:46 (sixteen years ago)

dip them in vaseline and sugar

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

Spoilt for choice with a comeback here

― It Could Be Worse, I Could Be in Florence and the Machine (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:52 (sixteen years ago)

devastated so far, tbh

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:57 (sixteen years ago)

drinkin Cherry Coke right now

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

Dipping cherries in cocaine

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:09 (sixteen years ago)

sounds like the lead in to a contrarian ass mutha rap couplet

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:12 (sixteen years ago)

dippin cherries in cocaine, in the local woolies chain
pik n mix this shit then a fiz wizz before i split

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

sherbet dip?
fuxor that nu plastik tube shit
got cherry cola bottles
on a supa hype tip

― snoball, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

got my mom and my pop to take the liquorice strip

― [email protected] (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

which one of you is really Custos?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

This'll work:

Woolworths could return to the high street under a plan by Shop Direct group, the owner of Littlewoods, to establish a chain of 200 stores.
The high-street institution closed this year, at the cost of 27,000 jobs, and left more than 800 empty premises. However, a year after Woolworths fell into administration, Shop Direct, which owns the Woolworths name, believes that there is room for up to 200 stores under the famous red fascia.
The home shopping retailer, owned by Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay, bought the name from the administrators and resurrected it online. It wants to hear from possible franchisees. It is not considering managing the stores itself.
Mark Newton-Jones, the chief executive, said: “In the new year, we will consider approaches from interested third parties. We believe it could be a successful chain of up to 200 stores, supported by the buying power of the Shop Direct Group.”

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article6927574.ece

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:22 (sixteen years ago)

Shop Direct been selling through the Woolworths online store for a while so presumably they've got an idea where the demand is. I would have thought that getting franchisees to run them was relatively low-risk?

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:28 (sixteen years ago)

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