Is the High Street doomed

[hash tag]

Walking around Earlsfield the only places I saw to get newspapers were branches of major supermarkets. There were no newsagents to be seen.

 

[mentalchik]

It's such a shame, when I lived in MK I'd sometimes come to Northampton to shop.
Now I live a couple of miles away I hardly ever go there.

Sometimes pop into the Museum and Gallery - I really like what they've done to it.

A little jewel amongst the shit

 

[BoatieBird]

A little jewel amongst the shit

We usually combine it with a visit here
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[mentalchik]

We usually combine it with a visit here
Maule Brewing Co » Maule Collective Bar Maule Brewing Co » Maule Collective Bar

I don't go out so i didn't know that was there tbh

 

[LakieLady]

The high street where I live is full of estate agents, charity shops, coffee shops, outrageously expensive women's clothes shops, hairdressers and junk antique shops. At the top end of town, a lot of former shops are now just houses. There is nowhere you can get shoes mended (used to have 2 cobblers), no hardware store (had 2), or children's clothes shop (there were 3 or 4), no pet shop (formerly 2) and no greengrocers (used to have 5).

It's very frustrating. I frequently find that I have to go to a town 12 miles away for really quite mundane things, as the nearest town has lost a lot of useful shops, too.

We've got a bloody Gail's though, plus 2 Costas and a Cafe Nero, plus several independent coffee shops.

Thankfully, we still have plenty of pubs. You need a drink when you've just been in a shop where they want £18 for a pair of socks.

 

[MickiQ]

The high street where I live is full of estate agents, charity shops, coffee shops, outrageously expensive women's clothes shops, hairdressers and junk antique shops. At the top end of town, a lot of former shops are now just houses. There is nowhere you can get shoes mended (used to have 2 cobblers), no hardware store (had 2), or children's clothes shop (there were 3 or 4), no pet shop (formerly 2) and no greengrocers (used to have 5).

It's very frustrating. I frequently find that I have to go to a town 12 miles away for really quite mundane things, as the nearest town has lost a lot of useful shops, too.

We've got a bloody Gail's though, plus 2 Costas and a Cafe Nero, plus several independent coffee shops.

Thankfully, we still have plenty of pubs. You need a drink when you've just been in a shop where they want £18 for a pair of socks.

But can you afford one at those prices?

 

[Aaronf]

I'm ok for a newspaper, I can see a Costcutter out my kitchen window lol

Short walks to other shops like Tesco Express and 2 Premier Stores. 20odd minute walk or short drive to medium Tesco, another Tesco Express, another Costcutter and a couple of Co-Op's 20odd minute drive to even more plus all the main supermarkets.

The little highsteets dotted around though, all like ghost towns and the same shops others have described. The old fashioned shops you'd find on high streets have died out, every other shop seems to be a tattoo parlour or vape shop!

 

[LakieLady]

But can you afford one at those prices?

What, one sock?

 

[PR1Berske]

I can remember when you use to go into a newsagent and the top shelf was porn from one end to the other, these days it's all fishing and model railways.

As a baby gay, I would spend quite a while marching around town finding any newsagents that didn't mind me furtively pawing through Vulcan or euroboy or the like.

 

[stavros]

I've noticed the death of the newsagent for the last twenty years or so, in villages and suburbia.

 

[nottsgirl]

Even the ones that there are often don’t have very many newspapers or magazines.

 

[hash tag]

Even the ones that there are often don’t have very many newspapers or magazines.

Sadly, yes. Been killed off by mini aupermarkets

 

[savoloysam]

Massive Curry's store in Nottingham city centre closing down. They have always been a bit shit but we're still worse of without them.

 

[hash tag]

Aren't Currys/PC World another that's concentrating on massive shipping centres or out of town shopping?

 

[stavros]

Aren't Currys/PC World another that's concentrating on massive shipping centres or out of town shopping?

I always remember Currys as being the out of town version of Dixons, as I think they were part of the same group.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Massive Curry's store in Nottingham city centre closing down. They have always been a bit shit but we're still worse of without them.

There's still a branch in town here - or was. I would have walked past it today but it didn't register either way. Will check next time I'm there.

 

[LakieLady]

Massive Curry's store in Nottingham city centre closing down. They have always been a bit shit but we're still worse of without them.

BIB sums up how I feel about so many things...

 

[Elpenor]

Any shop or business that’s regarded as ripe for laundering is also usually a modern slavery risk too

 

[Humberto]

Any shop or business that’s regarded as ripe for laundering is also usually a modern slavery risk too

Car wash services are filthy for that. Not that it seems to concern the government(s). Don't go trying to help them like a hero either, you will get them in trouble. The worker will get punished and disappear.

 

[Elpenor]

Car wash services are filthy for that. Not that it seems to concern the government(s). Don't go trying to help them like a hero either, you will get them in trouble. The worker will get punished and disappear.

I know someone who is a modern slavery enforcement researcher, they don’t share a lot about their job understandably but believe the aim is to go for the bosses not the workers.

 

[Humberto]

I know someone who is a modern slavery enforcement researcher, they don’t share a lot about their job understandably but believe the aim is to go for the bosses not the workers.

It's an open secret and a law enforcement issue. Still goes on.

 

[Humberto]

Stop acting like you just got onto something. All of yous.

 

[Humberto]

been doing this shit for well over a decade and I advise you to avoid it and live you life.

 

[Orang Utan]

???
Are you on the right thread, Humberto ?
Couple of non-sequiturs there

 

[Humberto]

???
Are you on the right thread, Humberto ?
Couple of non-sequiturs there

You don't think 'American' car wash labourers are slaves, or you think it unseemly and socially disadvantagous on U 75?

 

[Orang Utan]

Not sure what you’re getting at, but time for bed surely.

 

[Humberto]

Not sure what you’re getting at, but time for bed surely.

Ok. There's Car Washes. Like they are promoted as 'american' or whatever. But the workers are basically slaves. I think that is wrong. That there shouldn't be slaves in our country in 2025.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ok. There's Car Washes. Like they are promoted as 'american' or whatever. But the workers are basically slaves. I think that is wrong. That there shouldn't be slaves in our country in 2025.

yes. that didn't need explaining. never mind

 

[Humberto]

yes. that didn't need explaining. never mind

What do you know about car wash slavery you fucking fool.

 

[Humberto]

Dunno why i was so agressive?