Originally Posted by
116d
Good luck to Hays with taking on these stores. I don't expect all of them to stay open due to some of them only being doors away from existing Hays Travel stores, but it's a big vote of confidence in the High Street to be taking on a large amount of real estate in a time when most others are retreating. I do hope many of the former store staff who are yet to find work are taken on again.
I will second that , i really do hope that Hays Travel make this work. I know i said yesterday that it was the stores that brought TC down & i still believe that they did , Going Places & the takeover of the co-op travel group left them with too many stores. Hays will be making store closures in the coming months , there's no doubt about it.
The Metrocentre already has a Hays travel shop & 2 Thomas Cook shops that are less than a 60 second walk from each other