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Re: Beatties in trouble?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:54:26 GMT
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Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I heard from a Beatties employee yesterday that all the Beatties shops
> in Scotland have been sold off. I heard from someone else that this was
> to Hamleys?? Seems unlikely, but who knows.
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> The Beatties guy also said that the English shops were not yet sold, but
> were heading for closure unless profits / sales improved. Anyone else
> heard anything?
I hpe not, but I wondered about them myself. The Crawley branch is virtually
empty - no software, hardly any LEGO, and acres of empty shelves and floor
space.
Still they had a CyberMaster in for 100 GBP, which is pretty good. Perhaps I
should offer them 70 under the circumstances.
Huw
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