Want to open a new shop, then dont tell a sole

[bonus27]

Hi all

I just want to tell you all of an experience that has just happened to me.

I have been in negotiations with a Morrisons Supermarket about having a concession space inside one of their stores for the last 3 months.

To be told on Friday that Morrisons were withdrawing the unit to promote their own in-store merchandise.

 

" Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. However, Morrisons have just informed me that they are going to take the unit for their own use. "

  Shit i thought , I've been getting stock , counters , equipment together now for the last 3 months 

 

 

i was even going to collect a finisher , press , band scourer and outsoler next week.

 

But not to worry there was another empty unit directly opposite the one i was after in the same Morrisons Store.

So i asked the question , and yes it was available , but to only be told later in the day that .

 

The unit is available but it cannot be used for shoe repairs .

 

So it looks Like a certain National company in shoe repairs has put the block on this 

 

The thing is I don't understand how they found out.

 

So,  what's the moral of the story? 

 

If you want that new shop , lie through your f****ng teeth to everyone! till you  get it 

[SteelCityShoes]

Did you have a contract or a written agreement?

[bonus27]

No, we were negotiating heads of terms , so nothing signed.

I am not after any recourse , iI want to make fellow shoe repairers  aware of the power 

that a certain national chain has.

[Count Muppet]

I would have thought that it's Morrisons policy to not allow another shoe repairers in anyway. If they have a partnership with Timpson to provide the services within their stores it seems unlikely that they would let anyone else do it.

 

Probably more along the lines of the manager being happy to have you in but once they contacted their head office, they put a stop to it.

 

It's a shame though because they had a chance to have someone decent in but now will have to wait for a timpson trainee to run the shop.

[BrokenThreader]

the same could be said about sainsburys and tesco as i belive the big T has deals in place with these too.

[bonus27]

Morrisons head office new about my proposal because heads of terms were amended by them several times.

And i asked the question "would there be any objection to a shoe repairers opening "

to which they said no, way back in March this year.

The unit was then occupied by someone else ,but i knew they were leaving.

 

I also enquired at Asda

their response was that  they have a working relationship with the Big T, which is something the don't want to jeopardize .

 

So that's the big four supermarkets sewn up then.

[Mike at Vauxhall]

Large company shits on small company. I guess they would just say, " nothing personal, it's just business!"

[Tom D]

sad thing is big supermarkets prefer a well known name, sometimes I think I'm back in the 80s trumps just like regan , cobins like Michael foot and jonny timpsons turning into mister minit

[Flash]

Who owns the Shoecare brand these days? I understood it was C.B.

but things appear to have changed.

[Count Muppet]

Don't know about the brand name, but timpson own the shops now

[bonus27]

Yes that correct,  is it 1600 shops and counting .

[Count Muppet]

Sadly yes it is.

[Flash]

So why is  Shoecare so prominent on the S.O.M.S.R. website, "the society for the independent shoe repairer"?

[Count Muppet]

Deal was only done within the last 3 months I think. Probably haven't changed it

[Broms Cobb]

quote -

I have been in negotiations with a Morrisons Supermarket about having a concession space inside one of their stores for the last 3 months.

To be told on Friday that Morrisons were withdrawing the unit to promote their own in-store merchandise.

 

I know of a guy who was about to sign a lease on a shop in Solihull, two doors away from the T brand, the day before signing had a call T had bought the shop Freehold and blocked him opening.

[SteelCityShoes]

Nothing wrong with a bit of competition, if anything it makes us all better.

[Simes]

Interesting?  About 7 years ago I enquired about an empty unit in Morrison's.  I didn't take it very far and then opened a "mobile unit" in a nearby retail park.  Within 6 months Timpson's who had previously vacated Morrison's some years early opened again.  It's almost like Morrison's had informed them I had been sniffing around.  Not that it has had any noticeable impact on my business.  It may have just been coincidence anyway.

[bonus27]

Heard about this one , the story that goes something like this

Ex-big "T" Employee opens up next to or over the road from the 

Big "T"  branch that he  was working in

So the powers that be in the big "T" bought the building 

where he was trading from , increased the rent ,service charge 

so he could no longer afford to stay. closed him down.

Now I dont know how true this is but I have heard it from a couple of sources

Edited December 5, 2016 by StevenB
Removed name of location mentioned in post.

[the Dymchurch Cobbler]

Timpsons own the Shoecare and the brand I know this as I was one of Shoecare's Area Managers before Timpson took them over they will be rebranding all of the Shoecare shops. Timpsons have taken over the dry cleaning in all the Morrison's so that is prob why they changed their minds about other shoe repairers renting units