Tag: shopping

I went to Homebase’s final day closing down sale and I was not ready for what I saw – Express

As I walked into Homebase for the final time on Saturday afternoon, it was like seeing an old friend’s house being cleared after they’d passed away in hospital. The place is unrecognisable, what was once a store that’s been in the backdrop for several key moments of my life now reduced to a desperate fire sale … Staff were looking on forlornly as displays were ripped down, shelves were dismantled and the aisles themselves were taken apart. It was just a giant empty warehouse, bereft of any branding, with a miserable selection of a few last items on a table near the front, like a sad jumble sale. It was so desperate in there, people were buying the shelves themselves. Nothing was spared a price sticker. I saw one person buying what I can only assume was the microwave from the staff kitchen, since it was used and had no packaging. Others were loading up on wooden boards from the displays, shelving units, and you could buy a set of staff lockers for just £20.