Arndale another one bites the dust. - Page 7

cashman · 02-05-2012, 13:51

Just noticed on Broadway, "The Coffee Shop" is closed n interior is being gutted.

Atarah · 20-06-2012, 19:15

Heard today that another shop is to go from The Arndale. BURTONS are going to move out!
So recent "closures" are BON MARCHE, THORNTONS, J and T COSMETICS, a fairly new stationery shop that didnt last long, CLINTON CARDS has gone this week, and now the new rumour about BURTONS
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR TOWN?

wallop79 · 20-06-2012, 19:24

From what I was told a while back Burton's is closing quite a few shops & trying to get sales via the internet. Accrington went to the dogs a long time ago but the council obv can't be arsed to do owt about it. But at least there's room now for another charity/pound/or card shop. Then they wonder why Blackburn's getting the trade.

lancsdave · 20-06-2012, 20:53

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Originally Posted by Atarah

Heard today that another shop is to go from The Arndale. BURTONS are going to move out!
So recent "closures" are BON MARCHE, THORNTONS, J and T COSMETICS, a fairly new stationery shop that didnt last long, CLINTON CARDS has gone this week, and now the new rumour about BURTONS
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR TOWN?

I've heard Burtons & Dorothy Perkins closing in August.

New Look also rumoured to be moving out, and Claires possibly around Christmas time.

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Originally Posted by wallop79

Accrington went to the dogs a long time ago but the council obv can't be arsed to do owt about it. But at least there's room now for another charity/pound/or card shop. Then they wonder why Blackburn's getting the trade.

You just have to be patient. The new Bus Station will be bringing thousands in and for each shop closure now Maundy can expand and be waiting for the lucky punters

yerself · 20-06-2012, 21:00

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Originally Posted by Atarah

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR TOWN?

Sr. Benedicta and her Abbey Street empire is happening to our town.

cmonstanley · 20-06-2012, 21:10

told you that years ago

Atarah · 20-06-2012, 21:10

and I forgot to mention, the Lloyds Pharmacy on Broadway is being shut down, and some of staff moving to the shop in Peel Street (but not all staff apparently) by the end of this month.

S O S - who can help us?

lancsdave · 20-06-2012, 21:14

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Originally Posted by Atarah

and I forgot to mention, the Lloyds Pharmacy on Broadway is being shut down, and some of staff moving to the shop in Peel Street (but not all staff apparently) by the end of this month.

S O S - who can help us?

As it looks like we may be one of the last to leave I'll make sure I switch the lights off

Margaret Pilkington · 21-06-2012, 06:25

Maybe they should change the plans for the Bus station. Knock the Arndale down and use that land for the bus station - after all, pretty soon it is going to be just an empty shell anyway.

Wynonie Harris · 21-06-2012, 06:55

Maybe the council should ask themselves WHY other towns, although experiencing economic difficulties, aren't being deserted by the public at the same rate? Took a walk through the Arndale the other week and it really was a heartbreaking sight - shop after shop closed and shuttered.

jaysay · 21-06-2012, 08:40

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley

told you that years ago

Ya what with empty shops and dog stabbers we're getting more like Scotland every day

jaysay · 21-06-2012, 08:42

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Maybe they should change the plans for the Bus station. Knock the Arndale down and use that land for the bus station - after all, pretty soon it is going to be just an empty shell anyway.

Trouble is Margaret they don't own the Arndale, George Slynn sold the lease to furnish the Globe centre

Margaret Pilkington · 21-06-2012, 10:46

Yes, I know John, but they must be losing money at a rate of knots. Empty shops bring in no revenue and not only that, they make the place much less attractive to shoppers.
So even those shops which are still open must be seeing a downturn in the footfall.

jaysay · 21-06-2012, 17:46

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes, I know John, but they must be losing money at a rate of knots. Empty shops bring in no revenue and not only that, they make the place much less attractive to shoppers.
So even those shops which are still open must be seeing a downturn in the footfall.

Not wishing to seem defending the council god forbid, don't really know what they can do about it really, when they held the lease they had a say but back in those days everything was sacrificed to furnish the Slynn/Rix dream of the Globe centre, now the town centre is reaping what was sown 15 or 16 years ago

Margaret Pilkington · 21-06-2012, 18:14

No, John........I don't think there is much they can do about it either.
The land would make a good bus station though(if the Arndale was knocked down).