The Clamp
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When they came for Woolworths you didn’t speak up…
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[News] WHSmith
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Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Just like Bejam and Key Markets
Yeah, rolls of the tongue easier that 'Joneses'.
Not sure why they've changed the name, especially to a made-up one. It's not as if 'Smiths' was a bad brand, quite the opposite I'd have said; and there only so much 'sexing up' you can do to a stationers.
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There's a bus stop in Newhaven which is still referred to as being "round the back of Woolworths" all these years later.Just like Bejam and Key Markets
Tubby Mondays
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I’d forgotten they sold records (and so did boots come to that)!
Think I bought the who live at Leeds from Tunbridge wells WH Smith.
The last record I bought from WH Smith was the 12" of Interesting Drug by Morrissey on the day it came out in 1989. It was in the branch near my nan's in Aldershot.
- Aug 7, 2003
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Sussex Stationers / British Bookshops was far better than WHS but didn’t last.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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The thing about the new name T G Jones is that even though it is new it already feels outdated. It is too reminiscent of WH Smith. I fear the new store is doomed before it even started - sometimes you need a clean break.
This is the mistake MK Dons made. All reference to the old Wimbledon should been removed the moment AFC Wimbledon formed. MK has 287,000 people, yet in 20 years the club has achieved precisely nothing other than producing a young Dele Alli.
This is the mistake MK Dons made. All reference to the old Wimbledon should been removed the moment AFC Wimbledon formed. MK has 287,000 people, yet in 20 years the club has achieved precisely nothing other than producing a young Dele Alli.
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And was bought by WHS in the end.
Bob!
Coffee Buyer
- Jul 5, 2003
- 12,034
Because the current owners of WHSmith have retained the name for the shops they still have in stations, airports etc.
Tubby Mondays
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- Aug 7, 2003
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Didn’t know that
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Yep, WHS took over in 2011.
Shirty
Daring to Zlatan
Its hard to keep up, isnt it.
- Oct 17, 2008
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We have one in Seaford, about 20ft from WH Smiths. I have no idea how that even works for them, both stores are always dead
Or the £17 for a bottle of water to replace the bottle you had to dump just before security. And on that note - why do you need a boarding pass to buy a bottle of water ?