Selfridges

[Bazile]

Debehams is topical in the news

Is it likely that Selfridges could follow suit (I have no info to suggest they are in any difficulties presently )

However don't they operate on the same business model i.e. concessions within a department store ?

[barry1010]

Department stores have been falling out of favour for years. Birmingham has lost Beatties, Grey’s, Lewis’s (not John Lewis) and John Lewis, Owen Owen and others.

[Bazile]

There aren't many left

M&S
House Of Fraser
Selfridges
Harrods

[Hopkirk]

House of Fraser failed.

John Lewis is in the early stages of dying.

[emmie]

London Oxford Street survives but i wonder for how long

[emmie]

though going on todays news shoppers were out in force, so mayb for a while longer

[Bazile]

There is a House Of Fraser in Birmingham

[pastafreak]

There is one here in Plymouth also.

[Mamyalynne]

House of Fraser has 47 outlets.

[barry1010]

The House of Fraser in Birmingham will close when the council gives permission for redevelopment. When I was in there last December only half the floors were open to the public, no Santa’s grotto, no food hall, no restaurant, no toy department. No customers.

[237SJ]

Selfridges has a heck of a lot of tourist traffic (or it did, before covid) whereas Debenhams doesn`t. I went to a local Debenhams today and I can see why it is dying. The clothes were dire - most of them looked like they had been in there since the 1980s and the rest wouldn`t have looked out of place on Ru Paul's Drag Race.

[jno]

BHS has already gone from Oxford St, now Debenhams. That still leaves John Lewis, Selfridges, two M&S and two Primarks (which always seem to be jammed but perhaps less so now). On the other hand, some day it will get Crossrail bringing customrs in.