| Debenhams Site 13:25 - Sep 4 with 2751 views | Sivell |
Absolutely fantastic news for our town.
No surprise that Reform were against it though. |  | | |  |
| Debenhams Site on 17:05 - Sep 4 | J2BLUE |
Debenhams has gone?!?!? |  | | |
| Debenhams Site on 17:10 - Sep 4 | hoppy |
| Debenhams Site on 17:05 - Sep 4 by J2BLUE |
Debenhams has gone?!?!? |
You'll also be disappointed to learn next time you're in town, you won't be able to pop in to Woolworths for some pick n mix either. |  |
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| Debenhams Site on 17:13 - Sep 4 | WeWereZombies |
| Debenhams Site on 17:10 - Sep 4 by hoppy |
You'll also be disappointed to learn next time you're in town, you won't be able to pop in to Woolworths for some pick n mix either. |
I've heard that Martin and Newby's might be closing soon... |  |
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| Debenhams Site on 17:22 - Sep 4 | OldFart71 |
Debenhams got into trouble because one of the bosses took several millions out of the business a couple of years before it went to the wall. He denied it and said they had plenty of time to put things right.
They had the chance to save it as Mike Ashley of Sports Direct put in an offer for it, but because basically they didn't like him they turned it down.
For those of you who are younger and maybe didn't know Debenham's was originally Footman's who had their own proper restaurant on the second floor and had a lift attendant in the lift.
For those of you lucky enough to visit New York City and go into Tiffany's they also have a lift attendant who gives you some of the history as you are going to the floor of your choice. |  | | |
| Debenhams Site on 17:42 - Sep 4 | Swansea_Blue |
No! They can’t knock it down, it’s iconic. And where would I go at Christmas to watch the lucky kid that got to play on the ZX Spectrum? |  |
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| Debenhams Site on 17:43 - Sep 4 | mellowblue |
| Debenhams Site on 17:22 - Sep 4 by OldFart71 |
Debenhams got into trouble because one of the bosses took several millions out of the business a couple of years before it went to the wall. He denied it and said they had plenty of time to put things right.
They had the chance to save it as Mike Ashley of Sports Direct put in an offer for it, but because basically they didn't like him they turned it down.
For those of you who are younger and maybe didn't know Debenham's was originally Footman's who had their own proper restaurant on the second floor and had a lift attendant in the lift.
For those of you lucky enough to visit New York City and go into Tiffany's they also have a lift attendant who gives you some of the history as you are going to the floor of your choice. |
The last straw ws the Arcadia group (Burtons, Dorothy Perkins et al) going broke during their financial problems. This did not help as Arcadia had a lot of concessions in The Debenhams shops. Debenhams had been badly run and stocked for years. The losses were in the hundreds of millions year on year, not sure the boss spooning a bit away would have made the difference. | | | |
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| Debenhams Site on 17:48 - Sep 4 | Dubtractor |
| Debenhams Site on 17:43 - Sep 4 by mellowblue |
The last straw ws the Arcadia group (Burtons, Dorothy Perkins et al) going broke during their financial problems. This did not help as Arcadia had a lot of concessions in The Debenhams shops. Debenhams had been badly run and stocked for years. The losses were in the hundreds of millions year on year, not sure the boss spooning a bit away would have made the difference. |
Debenhams was a bit lost for years to be honest - it wasn't good at anything anymore, and department stores in general don't really work anymore. |  |
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| Debenhams Site on 09:45 - Sep 5 | Mark |
I miss the days when it was a pleasure to visit town, with so many interesting shops to look round, including Debenhams. Online shopping may be more convenient, but those firms pay little tax into society and I am glad we had a vibrant town centre to go to when I was young.
That said, I am pleased with recent efforts to make the town more green and I hope it is over the worst of the decline. Demolishing the Debenhams eye sore will help and I am pleased that is planned. I hope we can one day have a town centre to be proud of again, alongside the success of the football club and the lovely parks and waterfront. |  | | |
| Debenhams Site on 10:01 - Sep 5 | OldFart71 |
| Debenhams Site on 17:48 - Sep 4 by Dubtractor |
Debenhams was a bit lost for years to be honest - it wasn't good at anything anymore, and department stores in general don't really work anymore. |
Personally I loved Ipswich on a Thursday night coming up to Christmas and Debenhams really made it with their windows made up. It was a great shop and I reckon I must have spent several thousands over the years.
Me and the wife love cruising and on our first cruise I decided to hire a tuxedo from Debenhams as you can't be sure you will like cruising or not.
I do wonder how certain departments made any money though. But it amazes me how you go to these cities in places like Spain and Italy and you don't see large swathes of shops closed like you do in places like Ipswich and Haverhill.
Whether that's because the charges involved in keeping a shop open is too high here. | | | |
| Debenhams Site on 12:49 - Sep 5 | stonojnr |
| Debenhams Site on 17:48 - Sep 4 by Dubtractor |
Debenhams was a bit lost for years to be honest - it wasn't good at anything anymore, and department stores in general don't really work anymore. |
exactly, Im not sure any of the other stuff helped the finances, like you could say actually most of the people who shopped at Debenhams ended up buying from Wilko instead, or Temu now.
but really Debenhams didnt really know who their customer base were and, they had lots of concession brands and staff but no identity anymore.
fwiw the Ipswich Debenhams was one of their best older stores in the country, Burys was a new build, but you only had to visit a few of the other older stores around places and most of them were falling apart, had very little stock, were laid out all wrong, and unsurprisingly people didnt shop there. | | | |
| Debenhams Site on 13:03 - Sep 5 | stonojnr |
how we do know its fantastic news if we dont know what IBC intend to do with it ?
IBC dont have a great track record of buying retail property and making it a financial success. and they dont have a great track record of doing amazing things with government grant money, hence why we only have planters and some benches to show for £25million, and they dont have great track record of moving that fast, hence why its taken 10 years from announcing it in their master plan, to just even commit to asking some development partners to draw up plans for the Waterfront "gateway"...and people still think an aquatic centre is going to magically appear next to Portman road.
but thats a reputation that even in the corridors of Whitehall theyve got, theyre slow, dont spend money they are given well & tend to sign up to bad deals. which is one of the reasons why when it comes to all those government regional development grants, Ipswich by and large loses out massively compared to the amounts of money Norwich or Cambridge can acquire.
so it might be good news something is happening with the building, but until we know what they want to do with it, how can it be deemed fantastic news ? | | | |
| Debenhams Site on 13:34 - Sep 5 | J2BLUE |
| Debenhams Site on 17:10 - Sep 4 by hoppy |
You'll also be disappointed to learn next time you're in town, you won't be able to pop in to Woolworths for some pick n mix either. |
ffs, please tell me Thing-Me-Bobs is still there? | | | |
| Debenhams Site on 12:54 - Sep 6 | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Debenhams Site on 17:48 - Sep 4 by Dubtractor |
Debenhams was a bit lost for years to be honest - it wasn't good at anything anymore, and department stores in general don't really work anymore. |
Thought I would let the aftermath from the football match to die down a bit before responding.
I’m a bit of a dyed in the wool old crusty where shopping is concerned and I needed a new suit and all the accessories that come with it for a wedding in two weeks time. I don’t like wearing said attire at the best of times and generally look like a mannequin in a cheap pound shop that’s been hastily thrown together on the rare occasions where such clothing is required.
Together with Mrs SSB, we went to Norwich on Friday morning and found a wonderful gentleman’s department store that I won’t name, but apparently has been in the city centre for a long time.
To cut a long story short, the service was exceptional, I purchased all the accessories, shoes, and a suit that even my cynical self thinks I look the dogs danglies in. I had a budget of £300.00 and over spent by the princely sum of two quid.
There is still a place for the high street and the kind of establishments that give you the service and seeing how Norwich and BSE seem to manage things, maybe other towns of a similar size could learn something from them.
Was back in plenty of time to get up to Ipswich for a pint outside Mannings and was thinking how chalk and cheese our respective centres are. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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