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| | | Beatties in Leicester has closed... Managed to get the large Stingray Aquanauts set for £30 from it though :) I've heard they're closing down all but about 10 shops in the UK, and then going back to models only. Steve (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) It looks like Argos/TRU has claimed another victim. Scott A (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Ian Bishop
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| | | | (...) This will be pretty bad for me if the remaining Beatties close - it will just leave Index, Argos and Woolies around here, and Woolies have next to nothing. I rarely bought anything in Beatties due to the top-dollar prices, but they always had (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Jason Briscoe
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| | | | Beatties obviously went bust beacuse Michael bought too many sets with his staff discount? I won't miss the store, the staff in the ones round my way were unhelpful and the prices were way to high! Argos is one of the best especially when they (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Jon D. Hayward
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| | | | A bit more info: ...of the original 60ish stores, 20ish will remain open, but as already stated, they will concentrate more on models. Where stores are big enough, they will still cary toys too. The unwanted stores are being sold off. Some have been (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Michael Edwards
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| | | | All Mail Orders from Beatties have stopped including the website one All Stock from closed shops have been sent to the remaining shops, i think Newbury is staying open, so is Sheffield and Nottingham. Lets hope Beatties can turn around from the (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Huw Millington
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| | | | Did you lose your saturday job? "Michael Edwards" <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:FuB9Cq.6wy@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Michael Edwards
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| | | | I lefted As i moved about 3 weeks ago to Lincolnshire or known as Bomber country - due to the Dam Busters for WWII i live about 1 mile from the airfield that they used and i found a very good reference for the plane, when i have another 2 props from (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Beatties in trouble? —Tony Priestman
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| | | | On Wed, 10 May 2000, Michael Edwards (<FuD2tr.H7G@lugnet.com>) wrote at 20:40:55 (...) Ha ha! That was my idea! I've got four, but you can't have them ;-) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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