As we mourn the (probable) passing of Woolworths, the question is this: who killed it? For while many of us look back with nostalgia to buying pick-and-mix there, in truth how often have you shopped there since? And there's the rub. Although they sold DVDs, toys and clothes, the supermarkets do so too, and much as we despair of the latter's blandness and homogeneity, the fact remains they are very convenient.
When, in 1909, first Woolworths opened in Liverpool, the department store concept was novel. Not so now, and the truth is the fortunes of Woolworths in Britain have been on the wane for some years long before our present economic woes. Adapt or die, such is the law of business and it tried, but alas failed.
So who killed Woolworths? We all have.
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