Woolworths

New store fills Woolies gap

NEW ARRIVAL: The Yorkshire Trading Company store in Leek. Inset: Customers inquire when it is open for business. Pictures: Wesley Webster

Friday, October 09, 2009

SHOPPERS have greater choice on their high street today after a new store opened up in an empty Woolworths unit.

The Yorkshire Trading Company is now in business in Leek after taking over the town's former Woolies premises.

The new Derby Street store opened...

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Oyez! Oyez! We're back in our jobs

SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT: Stafford's Town Crier Peter Taunton with store manager Martin Jones and employee Margaret Deacon at the official opening of the TJ HUghes store in Hanley. Below, Margaret and fellow former Woolworths worker Michaela Aston. Picture: Cara Edgington

Friday, September 11, 2009

EIGHT former Woolworths staff have gone back to work – after new bosses found their CVs pinned to a noticeboard in an empty store. Managers at...

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New shop at Woolworths

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

DEPARTMENT store TJ Hughes opens up in Hanley's former Woolworths branch next week. More than 100 people have been recruited to work at the Upper...

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What's happening to the former Woolies in Sandbach?

BACK IN BUSINESS: The former Woolworths store in Sandbach is to reopen as WH Smith.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Workmen are fitting out the former Woolworths store in High Street, Sandbach to make way for a retail giant. The new store will open on August 20.

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Map shows Woolies fate

Friday, July 03, 2009

WHEN high street favourite Woolworths called in the administrators late last year, shoppers were left wondering what the future held for units vacated...

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34 shop jobs land in town

Monday, May 11, 2009

THIRTY four jobs will be created by the opening of a new store this week. Poundland opens in Stafford on Thursday, and the store has recruited 13...

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Confusion reigns over who owns vacant Woolies

Monday, April 13, 2009

THE future of Stoke-on-Trent's former Woolworths stores is still in doubt three months after they shut – because no-one knows who owns...

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Laid off staff join style chain

Monday, March 30, 2009

FORMER Woolworths workers are among those who have secured jobs at a new fashion store. New Look opened at Festival Park in Hanley last week. A total...

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