Another One Bites The Dust

[teacake44]

Mothercare UK to close. 2500 jobs down the potty. Someone in their highchair lost 36 million last year.

[Old_Geezer]

Would that be the highchairman Mark Newton-Jones ?

[piggynose]

Slightly outdated, i suspect. Got to move with the times.

[teacake44]

Much to expensive for the average income, plus the stores they have are way to big for their turnover, but they've know that for the last 5 years but appeared to do nothing about it.

[andy-hughes]

Modern mums shop on line - this was inevitable.

[emmie]

inevitable it would seem, sad though, how many more are going down the tubes.

[douglas9401]

Silver lining for those who like a bigger coffee shop though.

I can still remember the disbelief, and it's over 20 years now, at the prices in Mothercare.
Even then they didn't seem to realise that there were other places selling exactly what they did.

[ummmm]

Far too overpriced and the stores were actually quite limited in what they sold.

[Bobbisox1]

I remember my daughter buying the Mommas and Papas range which was greatly over priced even then, still sad that yet another high street store goes to the wall, shop jobs will be like hens teeth soon

[Khandro]

It's because parents use such shops to look & handle the products & then buy them through Amazon, sad for the future of the high street.

[youngmafbog]

Many of Mother care shops are not in the high street.

They failed to move with the times, just like the others before them. The ostrich approach to retail will always end in tears.

Given their footfall I doubt many will even notice once today's papers are chip wrappers.

[ummmm]

Maybe nowadays, Khandro, but not so when mine were little. They were overpriced back then.

[hereIam]

I think it's sad, but I always do when yet another big name shop shuts for good.

[Buenchico]

They've survived longer than I expected. They've struggled for at least two decades and I see that I predicted their demise on AB all of seven years ago:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1197016.html

The Mothercare store in Ipswich is on the same retail park where Toys R Us used to be and, just like that other failed company, vastly too big to be profitable. (It's firms like Smyth's Toys and Richer Sounds, where they cram their stock into every corner of small stores, that stand the best chance of survival).

[pixie374]

Our local one shut down some time ago. They were expensive...

[teacake44]

You will find that Aldi will snap a few stores up, not to big or to small. and the landlords will be desperate to let them. You could say Aldi have got their head screwed on, always in a good position to barter the rent.

[spathiphyllum]

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