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Re: Weatherspoons Pub coming to Accy???
Putting aside the doomsaying for a moment.....
Whether they like to think it or not, pubs very much need one another in a town centre because far from being competition it is viewed as something else to draw punters in. Bamber Bridge near Preston is a case in point; one by one the pubs started closing, isolating pockets of the town and making the old pub crawl quite a fair old trek without a pint. For anyone who doesn't know Bamber Bridge, it's at the end of the M65 and about a mile and half long from one end to the other, at one time lined from end to end with drinking houses.
I'd welcome a Wetherspoons in Accy, it would probably tempt me to go out drinking there of a weekend and certainly be a big draw after lengthy council meetings. There's no frills which keeps costs down, the food is decent and they support microbreweries by always having dozens of real ales on.
We could do with Wetherspoons looking to invest in villages, it's the panic button for local pubs.
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