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Post by crouchpotato1 on Nov 13, 2024 19:13:17 GMT
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Nov 13, 2024 19:31:19 GMT
Shame really as the one near us is pretty good for furniture etc, however most of the day to day stuff is expensive compared to screwfix and toolstation. Can't remember what it was I bought recently but Homebase was four times the price compared to toolstation. |
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Post by wannabee on Nov 13, 2024 20:07:37 GMT
A catalog of mismanagement over a few years
The Australian Group Wesfarmers bought Homebase in 2016 for £340M sacked all the senior management and discontinued some popular lines. It sold it 2 years later to Hilco for £1 who slimmed it down and generally asset stripped but were haemorrhaging cash. The Range owner has bought about 60% of the stores but 49 will remain open for now but need a buyer. Ironically the original founder owners Sainsburys bought about a dozen stores this year and may buy more.
As usual the most discommoded will be the workforce in the stores whose futures are undecided
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Post by prestwichpotter on Nov 13, 2024 20:08:53 GMT
A catalog of mismanagement over a few years The Australian Group Wesfarmers bought Homebase in 2016 for £340M sacked all the senior management and discontinued some popular lines. It sold it 2 years later to Hilco for £1 who slimmed it down and generally asset stripped but were haemorrhaging cash. The Range owner has bought about 60% of the stores but 49 will remain open for now but need a buyer. Ironically the original founder owners Sainsburys bought about a dozen stores this year and may buy more. As usual the most discommoded will be the workforce in the stores whose futures are undecided I have had dealings with these cowboys, I’m only surprised it’s taken them so long to be honest…. |
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Post by swampmongrel on Nov 13, 2024 20:54:58 GMT
Good riddance.
I spent many an hour there as a nipper waiting for my Dad while he compared screws and rawl plugs. I think I even missed Thundercats once.
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Post by shakermaker on Nov 13, 2024 22:00:59 GMT
There are that many potholes on the road leading into the Newcastle store, you’ll probably spend more money fixing the tyres and coil springs than on the light bulb you dropped in to buy!
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Post by salopstick on Nov 14, 2024 8:25:10 GMT
Shame really as the one near us is pretty good for furniture etc, however most of the day to day stuff is expensive compared to screwfix and toolstation. Can't remember what it was I bought recently but Homebase was four times the price compared to toolstation. thats the issue with some of these stores they are bloody expensive often takje the piss expensive |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Nov 14, 2024 9:11:03 GMT
B&Q are the go to retailer for DIY, Homebase were more for gardening and general household goods and the likes of The Range just blow them out of the water. Better procurement, much better supply chain, better management team, nicer stores. I’m honestly surprised they’ve lasted this long….
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 14, 2024 11:50:30 GMT
Plymouth Homebase closed last year and it’s now Pyjama Wearers Central a B&M store. It opened few weeks ago and that day there was mayhem on car park and surrounding roads. People were stuck on the car park, which is shared by several other big stores, for hours trying to get off.
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Post by salopstick on Nov 14, 2024 16:14:54 GMT
homebase were in market drayton, put a longstanding hardware shop out of business. lasted a few years before closing a couple of years back and again is now a b&M
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Nov 14, 2024 16:27:55 GMT
Plymouth Homebase closed last year and it’s now Pyjama Wearers Central a B&M store. It opened few weeks ago and that day there was mayhem on car park and surrounding roads. People were stuck on the car park, which is shared by several other big stores, for hours trying to get off. Hoomans can be so stupid. I was at the Trafford Centre over the summer and some wanky new make up shop had opened that day. I guess because little make up shit is so easy to shop lift and expensive they had a limit on people allowed in at any one time. So they had set up a zig zag passport style queuing system outside. There must have been 500+ possibly way more idiots queuing up to get in. Chaos. Shook me head and I wandered further down to greggs for a sausage roll to ease my disappointment of not being able to get some fancy new makeup to be met with a queue that was 30 or 40 metres out the door snaking down the corridor. Fucking mental. So I went home 😆 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 14, 2024 16:36:51 GMT
Who actually goes to Homebase apart from the odd coffin dodger?
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Post by questionable on Nov 14, 2024 17:00:14 GMT
Can you expect lots more companies going bust thanks to Labour
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Post by prestwichpotter on Nov 14, 2024 17:05:16 GMT
Can you expect lots more companies going bust thanks to Labour Homebase have been on life support for years, it has absolutely nothing to do with Labour....... |
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Post by Gods on Nov 14, 2024 17:07:59 GMT
I never quite forgave them for knocking down Lyme Valley Squash club in N-U-L which had 6 lovely new glass back courts and replacing it with Homebase!
They made the owners and offer they could not refuse and with that a great sporting asset was gone :-(
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 15, 2024 19:54:40 GMT
Can you expect lots more companies going bust thanks to Labour There are bound to be business casualties because of increased national insurance and increased minimum wage but companies going bust is an everyday event and always has been. It is likely to increase also because the last couple of years there have been record start-ups and companies are at their most vulnerable during the first couple of years. elitebusinessmagazine.co.uk/analysis/politics/item/uk-on-track-for-another-record-year-of-new-companies-registered-despite-registration-fees-triplingContrary to the constant matra by doom and gloom merchants the UK economy is healthy , unlike government finances. Nevertheless UK government debt is the second lowest in the G7 in terms of %GDP. We have record employment, the lowest unemployment since the 1970s, lowest redundancies since records began, low inflation, average wage increases higher than inflation. The clouds on the horizon are external impacts namely the state of the EU economies, wars, and the potential tariff barriers to the UK's biggest customer the US. Despite record immigration we still have over 800,000 job vacancies, so people made redundant should find alternative work. The future is not as bleak as some people paint it, particularly those opposed to Brexit, as Barclay's have found: minutehack.com/news/uk-firms-ready-to-kick-start-plans-put-on-hold-ahead-of-the-budget-report |
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Post by metalhead on Nov 15, 2024 21:25:59 GMT
Haven't been for years...
Although where will I get a a 2x4
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Post by pretzel on Nov 15, 2024 21:44:01 GMT
Who actually goes to Homebase apart from the odd coffin dodger? Me... and there's nothing odd about me thank you very much |
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