CUSTOMERS have rushed to pick up last-minute bargains after it was announced that Woolworths would be holding a 'closing down' sale.

The store in Liskeard had customers frantically trying to grab the last of the store's bargains after Deloitte LLP, the company's administrators, announced that the sale would begin yesterday.

Stock marked with ten or 20 per cent off has been further reduced but there are no plans to reduce anything by more than 50 per cent.

Some customers are unconvinced about big savings, saying that they were misled and thought the closing down sale would mean products being sold for next to nothing.

One customer said: 'They have had these "up to 50 per cent off" signs up for a few days now and this morning it is the same.

'If you go in you'll be lucky to find anything marked at 50 per cent off.'

The administrators said: 'If no offers for the Woolworths business are forthcoming, then it is possible that some stores may close before the end of December.'