Support your local store ...
Just been announced that Carpetright could be going into administration.
I am not a fan of Carpetright, or any of these big chains, and here is why.
Some years ago, when I lived in the UK, I wanted some cheap bathroom carpet. I went to Carpetright. I didn't like the price but knew no better and would have bought on the spot, assuming that they must be cheap as it was a big discount sale item from a big volume outlet, but there was 3 or more weeks delivery.
I checked the yellow pages and there was a local backstreet carpet warehouse. They had the identical carpet for less than half the price, and all of their carpets were in stock in the warehouse ready to buy. The fitting was also less than half the price and was done in less than a week.
I said it before, we forget that only a decade or so ago, these stores (Carpetright, Maplin, Toys'rÚs, MyHobbies, etc.)we think of as local probably are not. These stores put a lot of small local traders out of business, and often we falsely perceived that the products the high street/mall/retail park places sold were better or cheaper. Often they were not. The only things these companies were much better at were range of goods, lost leaders, marketing, and selling extended warantees.