A question:

[osprey_archer]

To any British readers: what are the chain stores in Britain? Like, places that sell everything (or nearly) and are considered a little downscale, like Walmart in the U.S.

My mind is telling me Woolworth's, but I think there's a fifty percent chance I made that one up.

Comments

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think Woolworths is about to go into receivership, so, although it sells many things, as a reference it may be out of date fairly soon.

Asda is owned by Walmart, and is a big chain supermarket towards the bottom of the scale.

Otherwise Tesco is taking over the country, bit by bit.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

What does it mean that Woolworths is going into receivership?

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

If it can't make enough money over Christmas to cover its debts, it's gone. At the very least, they're going to have to massively reduce staff and stores to survive. It's one of the big brands that everyone's a bit shocked to see going.

Other big stores depend partly on where in the country you are. There's several department store chains that are region specific, like Boyes (Yorkshire) and Trago Mills (Cornwall). Most Supermarkets focus on food, and have other departments in bigger stores, but it depends on the size of the town as to whether somewhere like Tescos would mean 'food only' or 'everything imaginable so cheap you feel faintly guilty'.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Much better explained!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Okay, thank you!