To the staff, it’s been like a second family. To local people, it’s been a familiar sight for more than half a century.
But this week the Woolworths store in Moorland Road closed its doors for the very last time.
A handful of people gathered in the road to watch as staff came to the end of a day of tears and memories.
Shoppers had been visiting the store throughout the day to pick up last minute bargains and by 5pm the shelves were completely bare.
The Bath store was one of the last 200 in the Woolworths chain to shut on Tuesday. The firm has become one of the highest profile victims of the credit crunch after going into administration in November with debts of £385 million.
Around 25,000 staff will lose their jobs nationwide including 21 workers in the Bath store.
They were all in the shop on Tuesday saying an emotional farewell.

Traders in the street said they were unsure as to what they would like to see take Woolworths’ place.
Former chairman of the Moorland Road Association Barry Cruse said if the right shop replaced Woolworths then other businesses in the street would not suffer.
He said:

I think the feeling of sadness will soon change to one of perhaps optimism that something will open that will benefit the street. It is not good to dwell on the past and Woolworths is now shut and we need to get on with it. Hopefully something will come which will benefit traders as well as shoppers in the area but I am at a loss as to what that will be. Whatever takes its place, with the current economic climate it will have a big hill to climb but Moorland Road is still alive and thriving.
“If the right shop comes here, it will continue to do so.”