Last day for remaining Comet shops

i`ll tell you, you prat, maybe if they had been a better retailer with customer care at its heart then your colleagues "" might well still have jobs this Christmas

Prices were not competetive, staff could not give a crap either. If they could not compete on price they needed to up their customer service skills..

This is like most big business's, council workers ect... and then its a shock when they have lost their jobs!

Lose the benefit culture and people might focus on doing a job and not think whats in it for me ?

I hear the prats are striking on the trains next week.

And then they will moan when they have pay cuts/ lost jobs ?

apart from the loss of jobs, the biggest scandal here for me is how the banks etc are secured and get paid, yet inland revenue lose out.

how the hell can we all "be in this together" "contribute more and claim less" etc if the banks get paid before the state?
the state, and subsequently, all of us have to pay the redundancy and the benefits. while the morons who cause the problems get their money back first.
why is britain not claiming its money back first and allowing the investors (probably an off-shore company who have been screwing us out of revenue for years) to be paid first.
the message should be. you invested poorly, once the homeland debt is covered, you will get what is left.

Yet another big name bites the dust,
I send all the ex Comet sales, warehouse and other staff all the best for the future and I hope they can find employment very soon

I remember the first Comet store in my area. It was not really a store just an out of town warehouse selling goods at a discount, Cheap and very popular at the time.

Going to miss you comet..... Always shopped around but always went back..... Good luck to all the staff

comet was very expensive and staff was very rude and arrogant

Some comments here are quite offensive to the vast majority of the 6.5 thousand employees who have, through no fault of their own, lost their very low paid jobs over the last 7 weeks.

Senior management set the course for this company under the direction of the so called investors who set up the company so that if it failed their own money would be the first to be returned to them.

I wish all the ex Comet sales, warehouse and other staff all the best for the future and I hope they can find work if that is what they want to do.

I also wonder which company Op Capita has its eye on next, whichever it is they need to be very wary when it happens going on the previous track record of Op Capita!

Perhaps this Comet crash, was the Mayan prediction.

Sorry for all the staff involved, this happened to me back in January this year.
The problem with businesses today is stupidity, many like the big supermarkets, parcel companies etc, employ eastern Europeans who send money out of the economy. It has drastically reduced wages, left many British workers unemployed and created most jobs through low paid, insecure agencies, the reason we do not spend recklessly on the high street, businesses are destroying them selves. The housing market they are on about, first time buyers, they lost out to private landlords who rent out mainly to the DHSS client, the reason we, or I should say the Labour party, were able to open the doors to so much immigration, which now we are paying the price for. The British family cannot compete with 4-6 eastern Europeans renting a property between them and being able to move around for work, at a drop of a hat. It is simply unfair competition. Due to these factor,s our infrastructure and quality of life are suffering and it is the reasons why our economy will not recover, how can it when we don't know what our population will be in 12 months time, how can you plan infrastructure on the unknown?