“Why Wellworths”Pt3
I will never forget the phone call I got on the 5th December….
… from the landlord of the building whom I had briefly met some 18 months earlier when he had bought the building. He asked questions about the Woolworths situation, but I was unable to answer many of his questions as I didn’t really know what was going on. So he decided to come and visit the store and then speak to the administrators.
When he came to visit with a colleague, he had a good look around Dorchester before meeting me and saw straight away that there was vibrancy about the town and very few empty shops. Our store is in the centre of a pedestrian shopping street. We started to have a talk about the town and the store and how it performed as Woolworths. Every year Dorchester store – 0403 - was near the top stores in the area for sales and profit. We went on to talk about what would happen to the store if it closed (this hadn’t been confirmed at the time) and the answer was we didn’t know, also we talked about what would I do, again I didn’t know!