Woolworths, a company with 50,000 people a day visiting it’s website is in trouble and rescue packages are being discussed.
Helpfully Woolworths has the message below to reassure investors and customers about the future of this iconic British brand.
They would be better setting up an affiliate link to Amazon. No wonder they went bust.
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I’ll buy the domain
Is that due to recession ?
I don’t think they could have picked a worse day. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I guess there isn’t much they can do if the site is down, unless it’s been down for a while then they definitely need to do something about that.
Nice find
Agree, that must be the worst thing they could have done with the site! It won’t do their search rankings much good when Google finds pages like this either.
How did you figure out they get 50,000 daily visits?
Very very poor. Have they been brought down by the amount of traffic of people looking for bargains as stuff gets flogged off cheaply? Or perhaps their host has pulled the plug as they’re worried about not being paid. Or perhaps it’s just complete ignorance. Either way, it’s sad that a 99 year old company can unravel like this.
be interested to know how much money they have lost by taking their site down, cant be helping their situation cutting off a huge revenue source!
I think it’s likely that the host has pulled the plug. Apparently the National Lottery aren’t selling tickets through Woolworths any more.
I feel rather sorry for them to be honest. When you’re down you don’t need to be kicked!
They could have given their holing page a title mind you!
Administration!
I honestly don’t think they care. Funds have obviously been pulled for web hosting and their contract cancelled…. I wouldn’t want to continue hosting them knowing they can’t pay
They would have done better if they served a 503 Service Unavailable and let the header indicate a Retry After status, they’re literally killing their site this way.
Plus they’re still advertising deals on the TV with the URL plastered over it – what a waste.
there already in debt by 360 million dont think website not working is gunna matter its there other company called euk that is more my concern as they are the only wholesale supplier in the uk they supply tesco, hmv, morrisons and many more so no stock is available
Wow. That’s bad & I feel sorry for their employees. I reckon Rob Lewis is right – their host has most likely pulled the plug.
It’s ironic that they supply wholesale to the very companies that have taken their market (Tesco’s, etc). Hoist by their own petard!
Cheers, Jon
I have an outstanding query with my account, and they have e-mailed me to say I have a reply on my account page. However, because the website has been down sicne Friday (at least), I can’t find out what the reply says. Arrrrrgggggghhhhh!
4 days later and I still see it’s just the same…all that wasted traffic!
Strange this website is still live:
http://www.woolworthscareers.co.uk/
why would anyone want to apply just now?
The reason the site was pulled was that suppliers actually advertise on their site, this created the “Big Red Book” instore, and was not stocked at there distribution centres but sent direct from suppliers.
Suppliers have had there credit bond pulled which means anything they buy has to be paid for by cash, which they don’t have now that they are in administration.
As for advertising on TV this unfortunatley is something they have already paid for and in most cases they have sponsored a programme. That programme is legally bond to show there advertising.
Yeah i tracked this recently with our tools – Woolworths has taken a massive drop in Google – obviously with no content up they are going to take a dive, but they have so many good links etc.
Check out their demise – click on my name “SEO Tools”
http://www.ip-seo.com/latest
Even now the stores are all closed, the website is still saying the same thing.
Search results for http://www.woolworths.co.uk
Domain name:
woolworths.co.uk
Registrant:
Woolworths plc
Registrant type:
UK Public Limited Company, (Company number: 104206)
Registrant’s address:
WOOLWORTH HOUSE
242/246 MARYLEBONE ROAD
LONDON
NW1 6JL
GB
Registrar:
British Telecommunications plc t/a BTNET [Tag = BTNET]
URL: http://www.bt.com/BTNet
Relevant dates:
Registered on: before Aug-1996
Renewal date: 01-Sep-2009
Last updated: 04-Jun-2007
Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers:
ns0.bt.net
ns1.bt.net
ns2.bt.net
WHOIS lookup made at 18:32:10 29-Jan-2009
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Could it be true? The re-launch of Woolworths online?
http://press20.blogspot.com/2009/02/return-of-woolworths.html
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