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Wilful destruction of chocolate is a shocking crime.

I was on the sweet counter before everything was prewrapped and we had containers of sweeties for customers to ask for a 1/4 of this or that. We used a little silver shovel to pick up the sweeties for weighing and I have never forgotten digging my shovel in and lifting it up with a mouse sitting ontop of the sweets. The mouse scarpered and the customer just told me to carry on and serve him with what was in the shovel!

Sorry, highjacking the thread.

If anyone here is an exemployee of woolies then. I was the one with the blonde mullet, sullen and oppositional! That was me!! ( i had to miss Neighbors for a full week. Wasnt hp. It was lucys brain haemmorage story! Gutted, i was)

when I started working at Robbs my weekly wage £2 16 shilling and 2d a week and four year later it was only £4 8 shilling,and we had a big clock in the back passage were we clocked in and out.And we could only wear black or grey on the shop floor,there was a shopwalker we called them in those days that walked around looking out for for shoplifters.and christmas time the windows and shop decorations were lovely.

I thought i was going to have to go specsavers, but its ok it does say big clock in the back passage, Did you ever work with nice gentleman called Charlie Lee.

Bert,

You are thinking of Bugis Street again!

I dont rememember charlie Lee

He was a friend of my fathers, both well dead now, just wondered what his role was at Robbs. He lived in one of the properties Mr Robb owned.

I'm sure my mum used to work here in the 50s. Do any former employees remember Ellen aka Louie or Lou Lou?

My mistake. I found out today that it was a store called Nolans.

Ahhh yes those booths, what an adventure it was for those seeking a newly released album to hear the crackle and hiss of the stylus on vinyl

Vinyl??? a latecomer; the real oldies were shellac.

Those booths were totally fab

I remember Robbs as a child. My brother lived in Oliver Street behind Robbs Department Store and Mr Robb let my brother park his car in Robbs car park. Such a gentleman.

remember the big staircase and some days they would have a new product being promoted --seem to remember food blenders being promoted.
Think the shoe department was behind the staircase and can remember as a kid trying on new shoes and think i was falling downhill when looking in the tilted mirror at floor level

Long gone (early '80s?) - was replaced by Victoria Wine and later the bar - that was more recently an Indian Restaurant...