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British Home Stores - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Home_Stores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Home_Stores I had to look it up even though I've
by jstx1 5y ago
British Home Stores - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Home_Stores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Home_Stores
I had to look it up even though I've lived in the UK for about 10 years now.
- vidarh 5y agoI've lived in the UK 21 years, and only been in one once. It's decline was long and slow.
- arethuza 5y agoI think I went into a BHS in Aberdeen in the early 1980s - that was it, clearly left a deep impression.
- test1235 5y ago... and that property is still sitting empty since they went bust.
- arethuza 5y agoIs the stupendously ugly Norco house still there?
- test1235 5y agoI never realised how ugly it was before[1] ... I guess they tried to hide it with a John Lewis[2] 1. https://canmore.org.uk/collection/371251 https://canmore.org.uk/collection/371251 2. https://i.imgur.com https://i.imgur.com
- test1235 5y ago*2. https://i.imgur.com/5Ay4QaL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/5Ay4QaL.jpg
- rwmj 5y agoThey were more commonly known at the end as BHS (unless you happened to live in the center of Edinburgh where the large British Home Stores shown in the article dominates Princes Street). They were a very mid-tier department store, better than say Woolworths but a lot worse than John Lewis. It's not especially surprising that they went bust, but it was not helped when the last owner infamously flogged off the assets, loaded the stores with debt, then awarded his wife an enormous one-off dividend. Edit: The Philip Green dividend debacle. I forgot that the cheque was not only enormous, but was tax free because his wife resides in Monaco. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/oct/21/executivesalaries.executivepay https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/oct/21/executivesa... Many of the statements in that article haven't aged well.
- hogFeast 5y agoThat BHS in Edinburgh has been converted (I have heard, I live near Edinburgh and haven't been into the city centre for about ten years) into a mini golf, pool, bowling, etc. place...that only takes up the basement. I remember walking through that place once in the 2000s, and it was totally dead then and ludicrously large.