General Chat

True Sharron, but many of them don,t stay for long,Here today gone tomorrow,Most doing a runner and not paying rent or rates.

Take it one stage further back Merlin. Those rents are still being charged but the shops supplying unnecessary goods and services are able to pay them while the people offering necessities are not.

Its more likely that the High rents and rates for properties (Shops) contribute to the demise of lots of them. We have got the Fishmonger,Baker and quite a few Greengrocers ,however the Little corner shops are few and far between,which is a shame. :-(

I think we have all been very well trained by advertisers.

Until recent years you would identify some need you had and set out to find a product to fulfill that that need.

Gradually, over the years, they have managed to train the public to see a product and then find a need for it.

possibly some of it is the way we have become sanitised over food production

we buy our preferences ready packed ready(almost ) for the oven.......

gone also, are the days of open street markets where you selected the rabbit, eels, fish, chicken, or what ever and it was despatched, cleaned before your very eyes.....and you couldn't get any fresher than that!


I also think that many of those glitter shops are on short leases anyway
Bob

and these days you cant buy a box of screws, unless it pre packed in fives or tens.

I had an item that needed some screws, you cant even open the pack, to try them for size, these days.....

Maybe this should have been on the thread about food banks.

It does seem odd to me that there are so many people unable to afford proper food and, if ever I go to a town, I see no more fishmongers, greengrocers, butchers and ironmongers, all of whom sold things you needed to live from day to day.

They could not make a profit and closed.

In their place are shops, which presumably can afford the high rents of town centre property, that are selling things nobody needs like tattoos, false nails,alcohol for home consumption and jewellery.

Argos, which sells not a great deal you can't do without, is thriving, as are the chains that sell fast and not particularly good food.