My local Halfords has been updated (again) so when I called in last week for a few odds & ends I couldn't find anything. The range of goods has gone down. Things like brake cleaner for example, and the industrial wipes have reduced in size from jumbo plus to hold in one hand. Most irritating of all is the lack of choice in the double sided tape. How am I expected to manage without an array of DST for goodness sake.
Some years ago when the city centre Halfords closed in Sheffield, most of the staff lost their jobs because they didn't want to move. They were mostly middle aged ladies, who knew their stuff. They said it was down to management graduates - fresh out of Uni with big ideas. It looks like that's still going on. The traditional car spares shop is almost extinct.
