>>>>>Give it another few weeks....
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>>>>Maybe. What happens is the prices on remaining stock does continue to drop, but the most desirable stuff goes first. They are estimating the last gun will be fired around the end of March.
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>>>>Office Depot also recently liquidated and I didn't see any great bargains there, either.
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>>>>Maybe if you go there at the very, very end, prices will truly be slashed. The problem is they don't announce when that is going to be. I was talking to an employee at Office Depot and he said the liquidators (who are running the show) hadn't even told them when the last day would be.
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>>>If its like the liquidation of Woolworths over here by the end they will be selling the fixtures and fittings ,shelving, trolleys and anything else they can get a price for. Surprised the staff didn't peel off their uniforms and sell those on the way out.
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>>Probably so. Another American chain that went bust last year, Wickes Furniture, had signs up at the end saying literally that, that "everything must go" right down to the fixtures.
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>>There used to be sort of a humorous fixed piece with businesses whose Going Out Of Business sales were an ongoing way of doing business. They kept going forever. That does not seem to be the case now. Now when a chain says they're bankrupt and won't be around much longer you can believe them.
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>yes we had a shop in Bath that the children used to call the closing down store because it always had closing down sale signs in the window.
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>I don't know about your shopping streets but a lot of ours our beginning to look very shut down. the number of empty shops is rising all the time.

One recent report I read said the next wave of bankruptcies would include large numbers of shopping malls because of all the closed stores.