Posted on 11/23/2016 4:51:42 PM PST by markomalley
WOOLWORTHS has cancelled Christmas in one of its German stores after claiming its only remaining customers are Muslim.
The former high street favourite went bust seven years ago in the UK but still operates 300 stores across Germany.
And a row has broken out after staff at a branch in Dortmund decided not to bother with Christmas decorations, gifts or music this year because it is now essentially a Muslim store.
Shocked locals found out after the Christmas section, which featured decorations, gifts and and festive treats such as chocolate Father Christmases, was removed after just a few days on display.
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Same here. We used to be able to buy almost anything there, it was like a low-cost department store. It was really the last of the ‘five and dime’ stores, along with Murphy’s.
I could buy all kinds of stationary products, dishes and glasses - and they had Farley’s Candy Corn, at Hallowe’en! - which I always thought was the best, and I can’t find it locally anymore.
And they had the little soda fountain area, one of the last places in our area that kept one. I’m not sure whether they had a ‘Blue Plate Special’, but Murphy’s, a very similar store that ‘died’ at about the same time, did.
When you walked into those places, especially in the summer, the first thing that hit you was the air-conditioning wafting the scent of Coke syrup :-)
Old Times!
I see the fingertips of the one on the right. She’s a whore.
Talk about a business with a death wish! When I was a child back in the 70s Woolworths used to be everywhere and now you can’t even hardly find them anywhere and. The corporations on their last legs hand now they pull this crap?
Huh bye?
so Woolworths is now a Porn shop
Just to relate how long it’s been. There was usually a vacuum tube tester so you could bring in your tubes and test them yourself.
But you don’t find the really unique things from small businesses, in the new stores, that you used to find in the dime stores. I guess it’s just not ‘cost-effective’ anymore, to either produce or distribute them.
Our old Peoples’ Drug Stores - which became CVS - always had the most wonderful big bottles of floral cologne, in the Summer. I remember Jasmine and Lilac, especially - and I think they went for one dollar a bottle. Much nicer than any inexpensive fragrance that you can buy today, which are all made of synthetic fragrance, and all seem to smell like fruit or food. Little businesses just can’t afford to make quality products anymore.
I’d trade my Target in a minute, for an old-time Woolworth’s, or Murphy’s.
Yeah that was back in the day when Montgomery Ward existed
Karma?
My town had three Murphy’s, Kresge’s, and Woolworth’s. Murphy’s was my favorite. Their store was larger, had more stuff, and served the best hot dogs. I miss those days!
vote you wallet and your conscience.
Well, I’m not quite that old! I think we lost our Woolworth’s in the early 1980s.
But another thing about these old stores, is that the people who worked there KNEW their stock - they were mostly very long-term employees, and it was the same in the old department stores like Woodward and Lothrop, or Hecht’s.
Nowadays, you walk into a department store and ask a question, and nobody knows anything :-(
We had Kresge’s when I was very young. I could get little dolls for my dollhouse for 5 or 10 cents, I think you could buy drinking glasses and dishes for pennies, too.
My favorite was Jungle Gardenia. Now you can get it from the Vermont Country Store, but it’s about $35 an ounce. I think I used to pay about $1 a gallon. LOL
Ah... People’s Drug Stores. Most all had a lunch counter.
Up until the mid sixties 26 cents would buy an ice cream soda in a tall milk shake glass, quarter for the soda, penny for the tax man.
Woolworth’s? I wonder if that’s the same company that once had five and ten-cent stores all over the US? Then they became mostly Woolco department stores and now those are gone, AFAIK.
The sad demise of a once great company. It used to be part of the Dow Jones 30 industrials. My how the mighty have fallen.
I’m surprised that there are any Woolworth’s left. They used to have the best luncheonettes.
If they weren't before, they are now.
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