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Tags: random
Date: 22 December 2008 23:55:16
Smudgie* and World Without End have both blogged about the demise of Woolworths and their feelings on seeing the feeding frenzy at the closing-down sale. I did go to a Woollies today and bought a couple of things, and am trying to figure out how I feel about it. On the one hand, guilty at benefiting from the misfortune of others, of course. But on the other hand, I bought a couple of little fleecy tops for our baby niece, for just a couple of quid, and was thinking to myself how it would be as guilt-inducing (for me at least - maybe differently guilt-inducing, rather than equally, I dunno) if instead of shopping at the Woollies closing-down sale I'd bought something similar in another shop. The area of Glasgow I work in has loads of "yummy mummy" shops, and if I'd bought the equivalent in one of those I would have spent around 10 times as much money (not an exaggeration), for something that our niece will grow out of in a couple of months. What has happened to Woollies is awful, and I'm really sad to see it go from our high streets. But just as it doesn't feel right to benefit from what has happened to Woollies, it also feels just wrong to spend such ridiculous amounts of money on things that look nice but will only last 5 minutes before they're outgrown. I don't know. I don't think I'm trying to justify giving in to the lure of Woollies, but maybe I am. Whatever - it's not right. * sorry, I can't find the exact post, but I'm sure she did say something about Woollies, sometime. Have a link anyway.