Page 2 - Fancy Fair News Today

Retail sales have plummeted by the largest amount since records began as the coronavirus pandemic paralysed the shopping sector. A cycle of lockdowns and harsh restrictions to stop the spread of Covid-19 have seen High Streets decimated. Today the Office for National Statistics said sales were down 1.9 per cent, the biggest slump since figures started being collated in 1996. There was a slight 0.3 per cent rise in sales during December, but this was not enough to save the year. The high street ...

One opened at the Hampshire Centre (now Castlepoint) in 1968. It lasted until the 1980s, when the majority of Woolcos became Gateway hypermarkets and were later taken over by Asda. Woolco. Woolworths Bournemouth’s original Woolworths was destroyed by the 1943 bombing that also claimed the nearby Punshon Memorial Church and the Central Hotel. From the 1950s, Woolworths expanded and modernised. In 1955, the Echo reported on the opening of a “new self-service style” Woolworths at Wes...