Focus Closing Down Sale

[Adam Wadsworth]

Well it started today in Barnsley. I have just fetched a new bathroom for the gf's parents. 30% off. Other stores may have also already started so keep your eyes out for a bargain.

Adam

[A.Lee]

Is that a good price though? I've been in a few times, they were ridiculously overpriced for many things ( a single fused connector -£7.59) , although there were some nice kitchen sinks reduced from £300 to £127 2 weeks ago.

Alan.

[Adam Wadsworth]

Dunno.

Have a look at their new web site

=A3300 for a full bathroom suite and an electric shower. The shower was =A3150 2 weeks ago.

Point taken. But it is the bathroom suite that they were looking at a few months ago.

-- Adam

[Andy Dingley]

I went into Newport and the No Frills DIY clearance shed.

Not a sausage in there. Stock levels were more or less the same as Christmas (i.e. half the shed is walled off and empty) but instead of being Focus stock (OK, but originally stupidly over-priced) it was now all Payless stock (nasty rubbish, at any price). Discounts were 20% &

30% off, which isn't enough to bring this stock down to a sensible price, let alone a bargain.

I only spent about a fiver, and that was for something that would have been .cheaper in Screwfix, but it saved me a further trip.

[Moonraker]

The best "bargains" I could see was 20% off, but discount cards can no longer be used, so a miserable 10% discount.

[Steve Walker]

Still more expensive than Wickes or B&Q then... ?