Woolworths

Woolworths was a department store chain in england. All of it's stores were closed in early 2009. Many Woolworths store closing photos can be found online.

On 5 December, Woolworths both recorded their greatest single day takings of £27 million, and axed 450 head office and support staff jobs.[48] A closing-down sale started on 11 December.

On 17 December 2008, administrators announced that all 807 Woolworths stores would close by 5 January 2009 (later changed to 6 January), with 27,000 job losses.[49] Deloitte's Neville Kahn also said that it was unclear how much of Woolworths' debt would be paid. In the last few days of trading discounts of up to 90% were offered, and a number of stores sold all of their stock, many selling all of their fixtures and fittings too.[50] [51]

The former chief executive of Kingfisher, Woolworths' former parent company, and Ardeshir Naghshineh, a current shareholder of Woolworths, have criticised the closures.[52]

The stores were closed in phases, and the final two closing days were moved back a day to try to sell more of the remaining stock and to ease logistics of closing.[53] [54]
 * 207 stores closed on 27 December 2008
 * 37 closed on 29 December
 * 164 closed on 30 December
 * 200 closed on 3 January 2009
 * remaining stores (approximately 200) closed on 6 January 2009