Quarter of Homebases to close

[whisky-dave]

Yes are you ?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Are you certain the Nectar points make up for the high prices? I'd be surprised if they did. Of course it also depends on how much it costs you to get to an alternative.

[The Medway Handyman]

[The Medway Handyman]

I find thirty somethings have no DIY skills whatsoever. Not complaining.

[The Medway Handyman]

Most can't even assemble flatpack.

[Adrian]

Have you considered that the 30-somethings you meet professionally might not be representative of EVERY 30-something?

That age is often the peak of career progression, mixed in with having a social life and/or small children - so often cash-rich/time-poor. Not exactly a combination that encourages even the DIY-competent if there's the option of a cheap and low-hassle tradesman (that's you) flopping a flyer through the letterbox.

[Sam Plusnet]

I'm pretty sure they'll cost more than that.

[GB]

I think you should google sample bias. :)

[polygonum]

Which of our two Homebases are they going to close? Or will it be both of them? We have them both, with an Argos in-between, on what is more or less one road. Visits to them, always low, have fallen year by year for us.

If precedent means anything, Focus became Matalan.

[Johny B Good]

It _does_ look like it. :-)

[Tim Watts]

My italian colleagues seem to have much more of a have-a-go approach to DIY :)

[Tim Watts]

My chinese niece-in-law can do all that stuff...

[Nightjar]

Undoubtedly - they go on my partner's card, which makes her happy.

[charles]

we have one Homebase with an Argo two doors away in the same retail park. Argos is fairly new there, They have had an in town site for years.

[Ian Jackson]

In message , Robin writes

(e) In some parts of the country, younger people can no longer afford to buy their own homes, so they are renting. You don't do much DIY in rented property.

[Dave Liquorice]

IIRC Focus Penrith became Wickes.

[meow2222]

Assemble it with the 5 year old. And if they're 2... wait 3 years :)

NT

[Robin]

They wouldn't be a. I agree that money-rich/time-poor is a real issue for many by the time they can afford to buy (and I suspect the TMH's rates would have his hand bitten off in London); and b. there are always exceptions - like the late-20s/early-30s guy near us who last month dug out the collapsed retaining wall for the c.3 foot drop at the bottom of his garden, including a 20 foot tree, and poured a new one in reinforced concrete over a foot thick. He's a city slicker too - but one who grew up on a farm!

[Andy Burns]

So the thirty-somethings who do call in a handyman don't have any DIY skills, what about the rest?

[Andy Burns]

Texas became Homebase