Although the pound shops fill a part of Woolworth's niche, it's been a hard act to follow. In the suburb where I used to live, about three miles away, there was a superb wool shop where you could buy everything you needed for knitting. It's long gone now, although I'd have said it did a good trade. Nowadays, when I go to visit the family in Didcot, I go to the lovely little (very cramped) wool shop if I need anything. I dread the day it disappears. In this town we had a first rate whole-foods shop until the owner retired and her daughter decided to sell on line. Which reminds me, Julian Graves has left a big gap in the market for dried fruit, spices and other baking/cooking ingredients. I don't think the supermarkets fill that gap adequately.