Comments on: Bye Bye Ottakars http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Fri, 25 May 2012 15:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Book babe http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-4957 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:55:50 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-4957 Id just like to add, to all of you out there who like me, enjoy reading and like ottakars much more than waterstones, there is still a brilliant ottakars store open in the promenade in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

]]> By: sian ottakars fan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3497 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:40:07 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3497 i love ottakars
save ottakars from this tragic mess

]]> By: sian ottakars fan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3496 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:39:23 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3496 save ottakars from this tragic event , i love ottakars as a child.DON’T CLOSE OTTAKARS DOWN!!!!!i hate waterstones to honest.what are we gonna do about xmas presents hey!

]]> By: sian ottakars fan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3495 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:33:41 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3495 i love the books and they are good quality this is going to affect my life terrabily

]]> By: sian http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3494 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:32:03 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-3494 this is going to affect people so,keep ottakars.

]]> By: Strange rumbles: Blackwells & Ottakars « Eoin Purcell’s Blog http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-2630 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:13:40 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-2630 [...] At first I was puzzled but on consideration it reminded me of a similar scenario with a post I wrote on Ottakars several months ago. It has proven to be an enormous success and has drawn massive search traffic (massive at least in my terms) to the site. [...]

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-796 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:39:49 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-796 Perhaps so,

Thanks for the comment! I guess that Ottakars could not have stayed independent doesn’t make its charm any less real and thus make most people somewhat sad at its dissappearance.

You are right though! We should look for positive changes over the coming months!
Eoin

]]> By: Ottakar's Fan http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-791 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:06:14 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-791 As a current employee of Ottakar’s, certainly in our store, we were informed of the takeover bid by our managers, and although there was interesting reading from the press, the level of communication internally was excellent. Although it is sad that Ottakar’s will become Waterstones, in reality and the long term this had to happen, or Ottakar’s would not have been able to continue trading, which would have been more devasting! Never the less, even if there is gold writing above the door, the people will remain with the same quality of friendly customer service. Perhaps Waterstone’s could learn a thing or two from the culture of Ottakar’s?

]]> By: jim hall http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-536 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:06:42 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-536 Oh dear! That Ottakar’s heard about all that through the press and publishers is awful. Typical tho. As former employee(s) of the company/ies, what would you ask the MD of Waterstone’s about the process, if you had the chance….?

]]> By: Andrew jones http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-507 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:23:42 +0000 https://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/bye-bye-ottakars/#comment-507 yes it’s brutal. apparently the head offic discovered the news about the rebrand via the press, and the news that their deals and promotions were now null and void via a publisher. redundacny notices look like being a formality. a very sad end

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