Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against Woolworths In The UK

Added 01/06/2009 by Se

It could be called the end of an era, as Woolworths in the United Kingdom has closed it's doors forever to the public.  Amidst the announcement that Woolworths would be shutting down due to bankruptcy, there were the typical "everything must go" sales where the store was practically giving their goods away.  Well everyone in the land of the Union Jack must not have got the memo, and Woolworths was left with a ton of overstock, and coincidentally some of that stock happened to be Xbox 360's.  Now Microsoft isn't just trying to take legal action against Woolworths, or Deliotte who is the administrator of the now defunct retailer, just to crash their party.  Deliotte is planning on recouping some of those "going out of business" cost by selling their remaining 360 stock at a very low price. 

Microsoft isn't having any of it and is taking legal action to argue that Deliotte would be in violation of Britain's "rentention of title" rule, because Woolworths still owes them money for the un-sold systems.  If this really is as clear cut as has been reported, then I'd bet that it's going to be a simple open and shut case.