Twitter account claims Woolworths is returning to UK high streets
Woolworths is set to return to the UK high street next year, if a new Twitter account is to be believed.
We at RTIH are not so sure though.
For starters, they misspell Woolworths in the below tweet. D’oh!
Plus a website link in the bio goes nowhere.
And would you really announce your grand return to the high street before you’ve sorted out all that pesky legal malarkey?
Ah well, it’s a pleasant enough diversion on a rainy Tuesday morning here in the UK.
Gone but not forgotten
All 807 Woolworths stores closed between 27th December 2008 and 6th January 2009, resulting in 27,000 job losses. Woolworths Group entered administration on 27th January 2009, and it was officially dissolved on 13th October 2015
In February 2009, Shop Direct Group (now known as The Very Group) purchased the Woolworths trademark and internet address, which continued as a retail website until its closure in 2015, when customers’ accounts were transferred across to Very.co.uk.
After former director Tony Page expressed a wish to buy the Woolworths name from Shop Direct, there was talk of a high street comeback, but alas it was just talk.
Despite being derided by many industry observers for being behind the times, Woolies is much missed by shoppers. Read more about that here.
UPDATE: RTIH contacted The Very Group’s PR peeps. The aforementioned comeback story is news to them.
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