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Had a neighbour going through a divorce/ separation and her purchases sky rocketed. shoes / perfume/ tat.
Is the High Street doomed
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Had a neighbour going through a divorce/ separation and her purchases sky rocketed. shoes / perfume/ tat.
Wanted to watch Season 3 of Ash Vs Dead Season 3 which doesn’t seem available on Netflix but rather than get it off Amazon Prime (streaming) I thought I’d pop out to HMV, in and out no bother - however the gf decided to tag along and want to go bra shopping, go to the Apple store, House of Fraser etc 
so I’m now letting her get on with it and am sitting in the car whilst she swans around with the masses of other shoppers, which I hate tbh but suppose it’s good to see bricks and mortar mall shops all busy today.
so I’m now letting her get on with it and am sitting in the car whilst she swans around with the masses of other shoppers, which I hate tbh but suppose it’s good to see bricks and mortar mall shops all busy today.
cupid_stunt
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Wanted to watch Season 3 of Ash Vs Dead Season 3 which doesn’t seem available on Netflix but rather than get it off Amazon Prime (streaming) I thought I’d pop out to HMV, in and out no bother - however the gf decided to tag along and want to go bra shopping, go to the Apple store, House of Fraser etc
I had a well oiled plan with my ex, if she dragged me into town for shopping, I would moan & groan until I was allowed to exit stage left to the pub, and let her get on with it.
The added bonus, she wouldn't spend too much more time shopping & spending, because she didn't want me getting too pissed during the day.
Department store Beales warns of collapse risk - BBC News
Beales says 22 stores and 1,000 jobs are at risk if it cannot find a buyer.
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Another department store on the brink
Smyths toys seem to be in most retail parks, don’t know how well they are doing but expect they benefited from Toys R Us closing up.
weltweit
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In the online area it is quite common to find for example a business selling only leather wallets. They probably couldn't exist irl. Likewise I found an online store only selling batteries recently.
BristolEcho
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Well on top of that living in a society that is very demanding on your time already.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Department store Beales warns of collapse risk - BBC News
Beales says 22 stores and 1,000 jobs are at risk if it cannot find a buyer.
Another department store on the brink
Beales are shite TBH, the Worthing store has been massively reduced in size, to allow upstairs to be converted into flats & new retail units at ground level, not surprised they are still in trouble - just hope my mates still working on that site get paid before any collapse of the business.
Primark and Next are doing very well I’m the clothing sector fwiu.
Pandora for jewellery.
skyscraper101
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Greggs.
Poundland.
Wilko.
Also Flying Tiger, though I have no ida why. It's virtually all useless tat, and cheap novelty crap.
You should offer her your support.
weltweit
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I was in Primark and Next last weekend, briefly, but neither had what I was looking for so I didn't make a purchase.
I bought wrapping paper in Poundland before Christmas.
So, paid more for parking than I did in the shops.
And usually I make a point of parking for free.
skyscraper101
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Pounland has gone worse recently. They are now regularly out of stock with what used to be reliable products such as chicken super noodles (2 for a pound), Bic Sensitive 2 blade with lubricatoin strip (pack of 5 for a quid), and more varieties Fray Bentos - now they only seem to do 'chicken'.
Artaxerxes
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Tiger used to have some ok kitchen and house stuff but they seem to hsbe ramped up the novelty tat the last year or two.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
It's when Mrs Q wants to go shopping that I truly appreciate having adult daughtersI had a well oiled plan with my ex, if she dragged me into town for shopping, I would moan & groan until I was allowed to exit stage left to the pub, and let her get on with it.
The added bonus, she wouldn't spend too much more time shopping & spending, because she didn't want me getting too pissed during the day.
Cloo
Banana for scale
It seems like overall we have to accept that shops just aren't going to be as profitable as they once were, but they're still needed because ultimately we will never buy everything online. So we somehow need to make them cheaper to run - business rates being the obvious thing to cut, but obviously a problem to replace as income (best option would be some kind of online transaction tax to subsidise shops perhaps?).
I was thinking about this reading this guardian article about how many shops in San Francisco are closing as the gentrifiers buy a lot of stuff online and don't use local shops, even as house prices go up. Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's economic boom looks like a crisis | Adrian Daub So even if the hipsters don't need local shops, other people still do and you need to make them available
I was thinking about this reading this guardian article about how many shops in San Francisco are closing as the gentrifiers buy a lot of stuff online and don't use local shops, even as house prices go up. Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's economic boom looks like a crisis | Adrian Daub So even if the hipsters don't need local shops, other people still do and you need to make them available
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Cid
Proper break this time
Along similar lines TK Maxx... Cosmetics stuff still doing ok I think; e.g Lush.
BristolEcho
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Out of interest when people talk about their local high street do we include central places in this? My high street is fairly busy and has a number of shops including a the standard greasy spoon which I love, charity shops, general house goods store and then more specialist electrical shop, and then a fancy deli and Bistro. Sadly we lost the Greengrocer. It's also changing gradually and I do envision gentrification being a big issue soon as some flats near by have gone for £1k plus a month and bigged up the Bistro and slightly more posh pub in their sales blurb.
This high street is quite busy most of the time and I use it weekly. I hardly ever go into "town" where there are your standard shops listed in this page and then Cabot Circus which is full of department stores.
All the above shops and the ones we discuss are often the big shops that have been shit for ages and are usually away from areas where people live.
I've written extensively that I don't agree with boycotting as a principle, but I am ditching my beloved kindle this year and signing back up to the library. I'd love a little book shop near by, but there is no way I am going to consider Waterstones as an alternative I'm afraid as I see them as being pretty shit themselves.
My friend is running a local craft shop and has made it a part of the community holding events etc with effective social media output. She's doing great and I think it shows that if you can diversify then it works. I also agree with the points made about business rates and property rents. We had discussed setting up a community based shop selling clothes/crafts and a small cafe, but making it so that it was a space people could use for groups, workshops for low rates/free etc. It's daunting though with the rates that are charged etc and without any money behind you to suck up any initial loss. Personally not sure I'd feel comfortable doing something like that now anyway.
This high street is quite busy most of the time and I use it weekly. I hardly ever go into "town" where there are your standard shops listed in this page and then Cabot Circus which is full of department stores.
All the above shops and the ones we discuss are often the big shops that have been shit for ages and are usually away from areas where people live.
I've written extensively that I don't agree with boycotting as a principle, but I am ditching my beloved kindle this year and signing back up to the library. I'd love a little book shop near by, but there is no way I am going to consider Waterstones as an alternative I'm afraid as I see them as being pretty shit themselves.
My friend is running a local craft shop and has made it a part of the community holding events etc with effective social media output. She's doing great and I think it shows that if you can diversify then it works. I also agree with the points made about business rates and property rents. We had discussed setting up a community based shop selling clothes/crafts and a small cafe, but making it so that it was a space people could use for groups, workshops for low rates/free etc. It's daunting though with the rates that are charged etc and without any money behind you to suck up any initial loss. Personally not sure I'd feel comfortable doing something like that now anyway.
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pinkychukkles
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Another department store has goes under...
www.theguardian.com
Beales goes into administration with 22 stores and 1,300 jobs at risk
Department store chain collapses - see the full list of stores below
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I know it's not high street and I know that ikea are one of the worst tax avoiders in the world but it is another 350 workers jobs at risk.
OK, we will find them jobs in neighbouring stores but it's what 30 miles to the next nearest store and there are knock on business's who
rely on Ikea and its staff for trade
OK, we will find them jobs in neighbouring stores but it's what 30 miles to the next nearest store and there are knock on business's who
rely on Ikea and its staff for trade
Ikea announces first big UK store closure
The Swedish furniture giant's Coventry branch will close this summer, putting 352 jobs at risk.
www.bbc.co.uk
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I know it's not high street and I know that ikea are one of the worst tax avoiders in the world but it is another 350 workers jobs at risk.
OK, we will find them jobs in neighbouring stores but it's what 30 miles to the next nearest store and there are knock on business's who
rely on Ikea and its staff for trade
Ikea announces first big UK store closure
The Swedish furniture giant's Coventry branch will close this summer, putting 352 jobs at risk.www.bbc.co.uk
Seems like specific problems with that store's location in the city centre, whereas most branches are in out of town locations.
We are due to get a branch soon, next to Shoreham Airport, which will make the traffic chaos on the A27 even worst.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
They will pull people from right across both East & West Sussex, and probably the southern parts of Kent & Surrey too - the nearest branches currently are Croydon & Southampton.
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