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"Woolworths' Bid at Console Wars??"

It has come to my attention that the local woolworths (Billericay, Essex), does not stock any X-Box games or hardware. I overheard a conversation today between a teenage gamer and the manager of the store.
"Do you have X-Box games?"
"X-Box? What's that?"
"It's a games console"
"Oh right, you mean the Gamecube. Yep, the games are just over.."
"No, the X-Box.". In desparation, he adds, "Microsoft?"
"Oh, well I don't know about that. I didn't realise there were any more of these silly things. You'll have to ask the entertainment department, they're the experts."
And so we follow his plight to the "entertainment department", where he asks whether they stock any "silly things".
"Do you have X-Box games?
"What?"
"X-Box games?"
"Oh, you mean that Microsoft thing? No, we've got the Game Cube in from yesterday though, the games are over there, and we have the console with two con......"

As well as general misunderstanding about gaming, someone in woolworths has either forgotton about the X-Box, or else decided not to sell it. Perhaps it is sold in larger stores, but this does seem to indicate that someone thinks that the GC is more lucrative.

Only time will tell whether they're right.......

Solskjær wrote:
stick with the guys whoknow best - game retailers, like SR!

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*cough* suck up! *cough*

Heh

Anyway, SR is all well and good, but they're a bunch of southern fairies who don't have any shops in the north... Guess they're scared of getting jumped by the Geordies. So I kind of have to shop at places like Woolworths/HMV etc

Again, this just goes to prove that you should stick with the guys who know best - game retailers, like SR!

- I'm getting sick of saying this! :)

Only thing my woolworths sells is sweets n chocolate

My woolworths has got GC boxes, I still don't know whether that means that is has got consoles or if it's advertising?!

Aint ever been in my local Woolworths...

KR wrote:
> Tóm wrote:
> In my local one, they have the games, but no consoles.
>
> same

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Do you two live out in the stix or summat?

Lodge wrote:
> What school do you go to? I live in billericay too.

Both my cousins go to Mayflower in Billericay, they're called David and Alex Cole. David's 16(me thinks) and Alex is 15.

Tóm wrote:
> In my local one, they have the games, but no consoles.

same

Yep my Woolworths don't sell X-boxes either but their website does... odd.

PinkPig wrote:
> Hey - I like Purple!!

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*cough* big girl's blouse *cough*