Wiggle to close Homebase servicing concessions just a year after opening

I use their shop in St Albans all the time. Just emailed them this evening asking why it suddenly wasn't a click and collect option for an order, now I know why.

If you live vaguely near one, you'd have known because when you checkout out online it's offered as a place you can get your order delivered for free. Really handy as you could try clothes on etc and immediately return anything you didn't like, or that didn't fit.

I hope (and expect) it will return soon, wherever they can get the retail space.

This is a shame. I am relatively local to the concession in St Albans and have used it a few times. While I was neither particularly impressed or unimpressed by a service they carried out I was very happy with the free next day click and collect service. The guys working there were always very friendly and helpful so I hope they are looked after by Wiggle.

You guys just don't know how lucky you are.... we don't get Haribo when we order to Japan from Wiggle

Not aware of the concessions and where they were but reading the piece in full it sounds like Wiggle have no option but to close them due to Homebase's closure plan.

I would imagine that Homebase will want to concentrate on their core business and maximise the space in the 75% of stores which will be left.

I used Wiggle's on-line service the other day and received by goods, including Haribo, within 48 hours. Good service as ever.

I'm another who had no idea they had concessions. And I shop on wiggle a lot.

Marketing was not out of their control. Not to put the boot in, but had I known, I might have made use of it.

Report seems to change tack halfway through. Do I take it they are now not moving to Wolverhampton? What has that to do with the Home base concessions closing? Seems like there's a chunk missing out of this report.

Some of us have very nostalgic feelings for the old Wiggle outlets in Homebase stores. We used to go down there, on a Saturday morning, with our pocket money, and get some rawlplugs, emulsion paint, and a few Colnagos. Proper old bicycles, from the past, not like the bikes they have now, stupid modern bicycles made out of wires and plastic. But it couldn't last, the old Wiggle/Homebase team-up. It was like two cats in a bag, it couldn't last...

(I was 28 years old.)

I once slightly tongue in cheek said in feedback that they forgot the Haribo. Which was true of course. I got an apology by email the next day and extra Haribo in the post the day after that.

If there is a company doing mail order better I haven't encountered them.

only bad experience i have had with Wiggle recently was when they forgot the Haribo!

Perhaps Wiggle could open some concession stores in branches of Halfords instead?

Only experience of wiggle I have had has been dreadful so I wouldn't have used a Wiggle Workshop just like I will never use the mail order. Not saying it's all bad just in my experience

they're news to me too ....

Didn't know either

Hence the closure.....

Third

I didn't even know they existed...