Lines Form: White’s In Warwick Liquidation Sale
[Updated] Starting just after noon today [Aug 15] a line formed outside White’s in Warwick, with the doors set to open for the liquidation sale at 1pm. Yesterday KPMG confirmed there were no offers to acquire the store, hence there would be a liquidation sale with all stock available at ”considerable discounts” both today and tomorrow.
Our cameras were not allowed inside the store, which has fairly bare looking shelves with signs up saying prices are 25% off. There are two/three cash registers in operation at one time, and each one has people lined up, with at least one line appearing to be at least thirty people deep.
The cash registers are manned by a cashier, with what appears to be member of management or KPMG standing by. Some would-be shoppers told Bernews they left without purchasing anything, as they did not feel like waiting in a long line to get 25% off the limited selection.
On August 10th, a Court order was signed to wind up White & Sons Ltd. The petition was originally filed in the Supreme Court by IBC, following after writs already taken out against the company by Pitt & Company and BGA.
White’s, which had been business since 1924, once employed 85 people however the staff at the Warwick location have been laid off, and food wholesaler Butterfield & Vallis have applied to wind-up the other two White’s locations in Warwick and Southside.
Update 1.39pm: There are now two lines at the cash registers, both with dozens of people running all the way to the back of the store by the butcher area. The household department appears to have someone stationed there to help, but not take payments.
Additional people have told us they changed their mind and left without buying something, with many complaining about the low number of cashiers. One lady told us she was out on her lunch hour, and had to leave as there was no way she would get through the line in time to get back to work.
However hundreds of people have been seen lining up and purchasing goods, and some people told us despite the long lines they are thinking about coming back to the sale tomorrow in hopes things may be marked down even further.
Some freezers, containing food, had tape going across the doors saying “OFF.” The parking lot is becoming rather confused, and there was at least one small argument after someone was blocked in. The field next to White’s is fairly full with cars.
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I thought customers where complaining of NO GOODS ON SHELVES. So wat they selling?? where were these people before this sale to keep Whites going??
It was insane up there!! Not worth waiting for 25%!! I drove past but didnt go in, saw a reporter taking pics of parking lots which were all full. St. Anthonys field was full, their parking lot was full, across the street from the store was full……people were actually walking from wherever they parked their cars……..not worth it……nothing in store really…..
Bda becoming a dog eat dog society.
Not the civilzed and envy of thw world any more.
When was Bermuda civilized???
Probably around the time your mother was pregnant with you and drinking heavily.
I am Bermudian and we are civilized and have been all of my 50+ years. Where are you from and why are you here? Is your country any better? If so get crackin!
I agree! Don’t complain. Planes leave here every day. Get on one!
My time is way more valuable then a 25% discount. Two cashiers; with lines all the way to the back. No worth it.
So you would like the cashiers to work when they have already been made redundant imagine how they are feeling. I have been made redundant its not a nice, you feel upset, demoralized and worried and then on top of that you have to serve the very customers that did not support you when you needed it!!! Really some people have no shame and all in the name of 25% off….. disgusting.
What was interesting was watching the scavengers and carrion zero in on the carcass of a dead business and pick it apart .
bye bye whites….another one bites the dust. The people that bring foreign dollars here are being chased away and business will continue to suffer, people will continue to loose their jobs, the government will continue to borrow. Bermudians just don’t realize that our entire economic system was built around service, no matter your occupation. soon we’ll be complaining about monopolies and price fixing again, wondering why they can’t get a job. We’re heading backwards, only difference is this generation of people that don’t know tough times will react negative to their state of being.
Where were all these people when Whites needed them over the past few months? It’s all really sad.
IM A STAFF MEMBER OF WHITES SOUTHSIDE STORE. UNDER THE LIQUIDATORS OF WHITES IN WARWICK THEY HAVE 25%OFF. WELL THIS MONEY THEY TAKE IN GOES TO PAY THE STAFF AND LOTS OF OTHER CREDITORS THAT ARE OWED THIS MONEY.
WELL TODAY WE AT SOUTHSIDE WERE TOLD BY THE OWNERS TO LET EVERYTHING GO 40% OFF.
THIS IS VERY VERY WRONG. THEY ARE LIQUIDATING THEMSELFS AND THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT WHEN THE LIQUIDATORS COME IN 2 WEEKS TO SHUT US DOWN.
NO PRDUCT LEFT FOR THEM TO SELL OFF AND THE OWNERS WILL TAKE ALL THE MONEY FOR THENSELFS, NOTHING TO HELP PAY US AND THEIR OTHER OBLIGATIONS WHO ARE OWED MONEY.
EVEN IF THE OWNERS TOOK THIS MONEY AND PAID MY MEDICAL INSURANCE AND ALL THE OTHER STAFFS INSURANCE. WE HAVE BEEN HAVING PAYMENTS EVERY WEEK TAKEN OUT OF OUR PAY CHECKS FOR OUR INSURANCE AND OUR GOV.PENSION AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SENDING IT IN AND NOW NO INSURANCE. IS THIS FAIR. NO ITS NOT. AND NOW YOUR GOING TO TAKE ALL THIS BEFORE THE LIQUIDATORS COME.COME ON DO YOU HAVE NO SHAME WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
YOU HAVE NOT EVER MISSED TAKING THESE PAYMENTS FROM MY CHECKS EVERY WEEK BUT HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE BEEN CUT OFF FROM OUR MEDICAL INSURANCE,MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS, AND MONTHS. SHOW SOME CLASS AND START THINKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR YOU AND MAYBE YOU WILL SLEEP A LITTLE BETTER AT NIGHT.
IF ANYONE WANTS TO LEAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT WE COULD DO PLEASE DO SO.
What you talking about …. that old mayonnaise?
Go to their residence and request food to feed your family from their gardens
today whites ……tommorow wheels cycles…. the local economy is really taking it on the chin.
^^^^^^^^ Whites wasn’t paying their bills and being that this is not the good ol days where you can get away with that for a time…(1920′s where Whites had a good start) they are forced to shut down, its not the customers fault its Whites fault.
Whites could have stayed open! They choose not to support government just like Trimminghams and Smith’s!!!!Oh believe me, the White family have money…just look at all they own!!!
typical bermudians – that is all i have to say cause you all know how bermudians act if you are a bermudian
The sad thing about this is not only people are losing jobs but Market Place who are already jacking up there prices every week and Lindos are smiling from ear to ear its gonna be bad for the consumer because once they become monopoly’s we want have no other choice they will charge what ever they want and we will get burned every week when we go grocery shopping. Times are changing and its getting worse for us…
It doesn’t have to be that way . Stop complaining and start competing .
The new Bermuda looks fab …like crabs in a bucket
They got what they voted for, not once but 3times. Want someone to blame? LOOK in the mirror.
Come on, you can’t blame government for White’s bad business decisions? or can you? all is the fault of this government eh?
i think the whites and imean the two brothers and their sister need to feel hard times and they shoulf be made to sell their home to help give staff their money asap
they have been ‘giving staff their money’ since the 1920′s, fool. It’s called salary. You work, you produce, you get paid. How thick can you be?.. no wait.. please don’t answer that!
oldman mr white would be so dissapointed in his children
I went to the Southside store on the way home and quickly realized that there was not a sale there. I saw secret deordorant for more then $8.00. This same item I bought only 2 weeks ago for $4.58. These people don’t realize that stealing has consequences. (liquidation) Somebody tell me why was a Viva paper towel single roll was priced at $4.00? This was less then $2.00 before.
This is disgraceful. Don’t be fool people. STAY AWAY
Its ashamed how they treated their staff like they don’T have food to eat and families to support. And what they have given to them on a gold platter. Now its another 85 people out of a job because of all that poor manangement of all 3 stores. Those store management never realized they are employees like the staff they did not own the busines so when they are not managers like they should they will be jobless too. And through all those months of line staff lay-off they and keep all managers on full 45 hour pay weeks and they knew they were in a financial disaster. Its sad.
Its sad, whites, wheels ,all the exempt companies, all the local layoffs, and wait till next year with the Goverments “dont want cruise ships here” policy kicks in and we end up with 30% less retail in town because of the massive reduction in spending, its past the begining of the end for Bermuda