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Changing the facts
Indeed, this is the worst of it. The £75 is (almost) justifiable - if they were transparent about what it's made up of, which they're not being. But 9.30 is way too early. There were discussions about midnight, and this latest ultimatum is the result of the "collapse" of those discussions. (They didn't collapse, it's just that inShops only wanted to talk to one, self-appointed representative).
The basic problem is the same as it ever was, though. InShops execs are stuck up in Liverpool and no one has a clear vision of how it should develop, the local market office are ambivalent to antipathetic towards evening opening. It shouldn't be a concession to traders, it should be a central part of the business model for the arcade.
I made a thread about this over there, so that discussion would not be lost in the chitter-chatter.
You've given some useful information and detail to the situation, maybe you could add it to that thread