B&M, Wilko, Lloyds Pharm, Budgens, Iceland, Boots, House of Fraser, B&Q, Iceland, Paperchase
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Pretty grim sounds a contradiction?
Is Grim ever pretty - the old Norse word for the God Odin. Ol' one eye was never pertty. Or vacant.
Is Grim ever pretty - the old Norse word for the God Odin. Ol' one eye was never pertty. Or vacant.
Brexit killing all cheap imports and cost of living/excessive inflation will take out the budget chains first. Although paperchase and house of fraser were more gross mismanagement than anything else.
Won't be long before we're all fighting for turnips in the dark while the trillionaire tory cabinet think common people just need to work harder or die in silence
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Or an oxymoron.
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I think half of the B&Q closures are mini-stores located within Asda stores. Without looking into the reasons from all the companies listed above, it's probably just part of the ongoing decline of High Streets due to consumers using retail parks and/or online. There are numerous examples however I remember when Woolworth's was closing and people stopped in the street who were asked about it would say along the lines of ...
It's such a shame it's closing!
And when did you last shop there madam?
Oh, emmm, well it must be 4 or 5 years ago.
It's such a shame it's closing!
And when did you last shop there madam?
Oh, emmm, well it must be 4 or 5 years ago.
Pretty is being used as an adverb to indicate a quantity (e.g. pretty sure we've met before), not as a verb to describe the look of something (e.g. that's a pretty colour).
It's also policies like clean air zones. Stop people driving into the city but also cut public transport services and increase ticket prices, while giving companies permission to build more drive-through shops and retail parks in the outskirts.
Then blame the lack of shoppers on the high street for the economic downturn and stores closing down, not poorly implemented policies focused on re-election rather than functionality and city planning geared on short term profit.
I would say that’s partly due to the changing nature of retail and maybe increase in WFH.
Some of those stores are poor:
B&M sells Chinese tat, discount retail is a swamped sector.
House of Fraser: not been in one for decades
B & Q: probably hit by the huge cut n people disposable income and competition from ScrewStation and ToolFix
It’s grim but there are opportunities for those with models that are popular like Lidl which are still opening 25 stores this year (cut back from original expansion plan).
Lidl: have their middle aisle to attract customers. they don’t do annoying 2 for £6 rip off deals, they don’t really do many offers - which works for me, the price is the price and they do sell lots of British produce.
Some of those stores are poor:
B&M sells Chinese tat, discount retail is a swamped sector.
House of Fraser: not been in one for decades
B & Q: probably hit by the huge cut n people disposable income and competition from ScrewStation and ToolFix
It’s grim but there are opportunities for those with models that are popular like Lidl which are still opening 25 stores this year (cut back from original expansion plan).
Lidl: have their middle aisle to attract customers. they don’t do annoying 2 for £6 rip off deals, they don’t really do many offers - which works for me, the price is the price and they do sell lots of British produce.
It comes down to the individual and how they want to participate with such strategies. For example I don't live in a city, I live in an average sized town. If I want to drive to the town centre from my house, park up and walk into the shopping centre, door to door would take me 10 mins tops, with all the advantages of taking my car that we've discussed in other threads.
If my town implemented a clean air zone that essentially meant I couldn't do the above, I simply wouldn't bother going into the town centre. So they'd lose my trade. However that's only me, perhaps the majority in my town who use cars would be happy to stop and start using public transport or walk.
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Screwfix and B & Q share the same parent company.
That's the problem with those dumb enough to vote for brexit...
They don't do their research
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Those companies have expanded in recent years opening shops that nobody wants all over the place; they are just froth and won't be missed, by me at least. It is not essential to life that shops open and expand ad infinitum.
Different perspective - Parking - you can't go to any town, well any town where I live and park for free, if it's not permit parking everywhere, it's pay to park.
Canterbury for example, is £3.60 an hour to park close to the town center and becomes slightly less costly depending on how far you wish to walk.
I blame, in part, greedy councils.
Canterbury for example, is £3.60 an hour to park close to the town center and becomes slightly less costly depending on how far you wish to walk.
I blame, in part, greedy councils.
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Surely online shopping has a part to play in all of this rather than just blaming Brexit? Rising fuel costs (for the consumer) building rates/rent and parking (for the consumer) as mentioned above. Where I’ve been to in Wales has some excellent parking tariffs, yet where I live can be expensive.
Some retail shops are/were just overpriced anyway, like Debenhams, even before the internet I could get the same stuff cheaper elsewhere.
One thing that ****es me off is if I go to one shop, and park up, rather than waste fuel, pollute atmosphere or whatever, I can’t nip to a neighbouring shop because of parking t’s and c’s so another business loses my custom.
Some retail shops are/were just overpriced anyway, like Debenhams, even before the internet I could get the same stuff cheaper elsewhere.
One thing that ****es me off is if I go to one shop, and park up, rather than waste fuel, pollute atmosphere or whatever, I can’t nip to a neighbouring shop because of parking t’s and c’s so another business loses my custom.
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Parking charges hurt a lot of our local shops as well as our high street. £1.50 for the first hour just to pop into a shop to pick up a newspaper, a bunch of flowers, a loaf of bread or drop off some dry cleaning was a **** take and did nothing to help local businesses. After complaints from shop owners and the public, it’s going back to 30 minutes (plus an extra 10 minutes grace free, so basically 40 minutes) from April and then the next hour will be £2.10.
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