Your memories of Woolworths?
On Invicta FM this afternoon (it’s the only radio station tuned into my car at the moment, but well worth a listen!) Neil Kefford was asking people for their memories of Woolworths.
Not expecting such a vast response, I should like to open the floor to you and ask you the same question: what event/events will always remind you of Woolworths?
For me, it would have to be the anger consuming me when they informed me that they were not going to be offering me a job. It followed my first ever job interview about 18 months ago.
Today my mood is more optimistic. I feel that someone was watching over me that day, knowing what fate lay in store (if you’ll pardon my expression) for the troubled retailer, as I now have a stable job (on higher pay!) in a company that seems to be acting conversely to the recession.
It’s not that I don’t feel sorry for their employees, today seen looking for jobs elsewhere in Twydall, as their plight is unenviable and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.
I just feel secure … at least for now!
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My memories of Woolworth are from when I was a child, and my mother would take us into Morden town centre about once a month. We’d first go to “Woollies” for some things, and the n just a few doors away, to the Co-Op Department Store.
If you ever catch a repeat of “On The Buses”, you’ll see the Morden Woollies in the opening sequence, as that was the town in which it was filmed. You might even catch a brief glimpse of the Co-Op a moment or two later, of which my strongest memory is the compressed air docket transit system. I found that fascinating!
It’s strange really. As a more discount store, I was expecting it to do alright out of the current situation, but it hasn’t.
It will be a shame if it goes really.
I once bought a chocolate bar and two tables in Woolworths. Not many places you can do that!