another shop closing? - Page 3

lancsdave · 06-02-2007, 21:52

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Originally Posted by Gayle

House prices are rising and people are moving into the area because it's a very central location to a lot of major towns with motorways to all of those towns. Plus, it's rural so a lot of people who don't need to depend on being in an urban location are moving in - i.e. we've got one of the highest number of web designers in the UK aside from London.

The only drawback of all this is that these people don't shop in town centres. They either shop where they work or they shop in out of town stores at the weekend or they shop on line.

But to bring people in you don't need the big stores. You need to be a specialist town i.e. the best place to get cheese, or the furniture capital or the arts centre. You get a reputation for something specific and some of the chain stores would return.

Wonder how many houses have been bought by property developers because they were cheap ?

accymel · 06-02-2007, 21:59

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Wonder how many houses have been bought by property developers because they were cheap ?

......& with knackered boilers in to rent out

lancsdave · 06-02-2007, 22:08

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Originally Posted by accymel

......& with knackered boilers in to rent out

It's rude to mock the afflicted

entwisi · 06-02-2007, 22:10

but fun!

accymel · 06-02-2007, 22:13

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Originally Posted by entwisi

but fun!

I shouldnt laugh but sooooo glad i didnt say it

now no having a battle of the techys hehehehehee

entwisi · 07-02-2007, 06:24

what would that be then, laptops are dawn with just your wifi security as a shield?

archiveuk · 08-02-2007, 14:05

No worries, it will be a charity shop within no time!

SPUGGIE J · 08-02-2007, 14:08

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Originally Posted by archiveuk

No worries, it will be a charity shop within no time!

Thats a bit sceptical. Besides charities do a good job mostley.

WillowTheWhisp · 08-02-2007, 18:43

Nothing against having a few charity shops and the pound shops can be handy for bargains that there's no sense in paying a lot more for.

The daft part is the building of more shops when there are already loads of empty ones - if we can't fill the one we've got why build more?

As Gayle said the ideal thing would be to have something that other towns don't have, or something better than other towns have so that people would want to come here. We have very little to attract people to come shopping here. AND there's so little on our market compared to Blackburn that people actually go there from here.