shutting down the store is a joke ,you say good luck to staff finding jobs, bigger joke when some of team leaders as well as manager's got themselves jobs in HEAD OFFICE OR ANOTHER STORE...IT IS NOT WHAT YOU KNOW BUT WHO YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once one of the best Texas Homecare stores in the country - only Milton Keynes,Charlton and occassionally Orpinton and Brighton (I am not joking) took more money or made more profit. Our team kept this store from closing when Homebase (then part of Sainsburys) took over in 1995. Infact by convincing the then Board of JS that we could diversify against the Wandsworth store only a few hundred yards up the road we even got a refit. Further improvements were made under Rob Templemans stewardship,but now the chaotic management of Home Retail has turned Homebase into a retailer devoid of ideas churning out the same misleading sale offers and taking no money unless on a 15% off weekend.The public now realise that the prices are all over inflated to get knocked back down again.
With Battersea the cost of land was always going to be a factor as with Kensington, and other stores in prime locations should be aware of this too.