Dave Plowman (News) wrote

Obviously after reading this thread, Homebase have
announced today they're closing a quarter of their stores.

They just curled up and died after being called Homobase.

They put it down to the modern generation
not being into DIY as their parents were.

Be interesting to see some states on that, particularly with
renovations.

Not sure how they work that one out - given
they stopped being a simple DIY shed ages ago.

Presumably because they had seen the sales of DIY
stuff drop off and so added other stuff to what they
flog in an attempt to remain viable sales wise.

Perhaps they might look at why replacing high priced
DIY goods with equally high priced soft furnishings,
etc, hasn't worked. The clue might be in the high prices.

But its less clear that they can make a decent living out
of flogging the lower priced stuff given the competition
like pound shops and ebay and amazon etc that have
MUCH lower overheads to cover.