Lewis’s Sale of Century

BARGAIN hunters were today set to hit the sales at Liverpool’s troubled Lewis’s store.

The famous city centre store is being run by administrators Kroll who are trying to rescue the Owen Owen chain after it collapsed last week.

The ECHO’s online message boards have been flooded with messages of support for the store and dismay at its downfall.

One reader, Mark from Croston, a former manager of the menswear department in Lewis’s, wrote: “It is a shame that the landmark store of the city may close its doors.

“Our best wishes go to the current staff.”

Yesterday the ECHO revealed that Liverpool Trading Standards had received complaints that some gift vouchers for Lewis’s were worth only half their face value.

The store will honour gift vouchers to the value of 50% of anything bought for the price of the voucher. But if a voucher is used to buy a more expensive item, it is worth the full value.

A spokesman for Kroll said: “If a customer holds a pounds 10 voucher, they will have to buy goods for the sum of pounds 20 in order to redeem the full value of the voucher.”

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