The hope left when a retail icon disappears
// February 24th, 2009 // Retail
Two positive takes on the demise of British retailing icon Woolworths:
- a BBC Radio 4 podcast following the fortunes of former Woolies employees in Scotland looking for new jobs; and
- the story of a former Woolies manager in Dorset who is re-opening her store as a “Wellworths” – and hiring back many of her former employees.
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