New Tesco Store

[entwisi]

You don't Dave, you can get them all over (Powergen, National Tyres etc)

[Tealeaf]

Sticking another supermarket in the town centre will be the final nail in the coffin for whatever small shops and stalls are left in/on the market. But if it is to be done, why oh why does it have to be Tesco? They are only marginally better than ASDA or Morrisons. Could Booths - or even Waitrose - not be tempted to come to Accy? At least the local consumer would then have the choice of forking out money on rubbish or quality.

[lindsay ormerod]

A Booths would be great Tealeaf; but it's the old demographics problem again; whereas the folk in Clitheroe can afford to shop at Booth's the majority of Accringtonians can't. We don't have the disposable income in Accy for nice shops !

[david1]

Tealeaf I work at booths main warehouse at Preston as a driver on the artic lorries. I know they have no plans for a supermarket in accy ' very sorry!

[glasgow guy]

it brings nearly 500 jobs to the area - is that such a bad thing..

[Ianto.W.]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Don't recall seeing it mentioned on here but Tesco are planning to build a new store on Eagle St.

Apparently you can go and see the plans at the Town Hall from today and let them know what you think. I think that might appeal to some on here but I'm not sure Tesco's will welcome their views

It won't come off there is only room for so many in town and plenty we already have, Something need's doing with the site, this thread was raised before, came to nothingTesco have been trying to get in at Gt Harwood for ages without success. They must not be throwing enough 'confetti ' about.

[Uncle Mick]

It says in the Observer that it will be built on stilts, with room for 600 cars. Now if you say it will be half full most of the time, thats 300 extra cars say per hour on Paradise Street together with the extra traffic coming to and from the new Health Centre and all the cars of the residents of Waterside Accrington ; I personally don`t think the road can take it, especially at the junction of Eagle Street and Blackburn Road.

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by Uncle Mick

It says in the Observer that it will be built on stilts, with room for 600 cars. Now if you say it will be half full most of the time, thats 300 extra cars say per hour on Paradise Street together with the extra traffic coming to and from the new Health Centre and all the cars of the residents of Waterside Accrington ; I personally don`t think the road can take it, especially at the junction of Eagle Street and Blackburn Road.

Because there are very few residents in the area traffic is the last thing the planners consider. Eagle Street is already on the main drag through Accrington but lets face it with so few residents to object it is unlikely that planning permission will be turned down.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by david1

Tealeaf I work at booths main warehouse at Preston as a driver on the artic lorries. I know they have no plans for a supermarket in accy ' very sorry!

This is a pity they do some really nice stuff,i can remember years ago my dad used to go to Booth's for a bottle of "Tanzaro ginger" it was a cordial drink and it was really good.

[andrewb]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Sticking another supermarket in the town centre will be the final nail in the coffin for whatever small shops and stalls are left in/on the market.

Absolutely! If this is allowed we will end up with more closing shops; more job losses, even less of a community that we have.

Why can't we achieve this through a market of individual retailers? All we need is to encourage a wider broad of market stalls which cater for the majority of peoples shops. Heck we could go all out and create a new supermarket right there on eagle street, but why not have a load of independant retailers inside it?

People might go wild at Tesco apparently cheap prices but half the time its nonsense. Look at what you're paying for, is it the same quantity as you can get on our market? I know theres washing up powder that you can get at Supermarkets that seems cheap, its actually got less quantity in the box than whats sold on our market and the market price is cheaper! So not only will you benefit but you'll stop feeding the (Let me turn in to Jambutty for a second) fatcats on the executive board at Tesco.

One of the main reasons I am against socialism is state monopolys, well capitalist monopolys are NO BETTER! I don't want to find every town with a blood Tescos in and nothing else because everywhere else has closed down. You don't get a community feel in such a place, you might see an odd friend now and then, but lets face it its just not the same as going to your local market stall where theres choice and vareity, not to mention good quality goods!

We already know they're a bit of a con. Like when Asda did really really cheap roses at valentines day, they were clearly making a HUGE loss but did it to get shoppers in, because they'll make it up on the other items, which means you're getting taken to the cleaners on mystery items. Not to mention the valentines day thing was just a complete gimick as they ran out REALLY early on, so people had to buy more expensive, lower quality than the market, flowers.

To sum my rant up, it might be a simple and convenient way to shop, but do we really need one in our town center? Would you really want to see our market even more empty, even more charity and pound shops? We've already lost a book store to the supermarkets and now you have VERY little choice. The music shops have gone too.. ok that could be due to piracy but worldwide record sales don't suggest it is. But do you have a huge choice in Asda? No.

It would be such a shame if we were limited to buying certain things in our own town, instead having to shop online or go elsewhere.

We're only small, we don't need a supermarket in our center. Fight it.

[garinda]

Don't forget everytime you spend a pound in Tesco's some of it will make it's way into the pocket of Dame Shirley Porter, even though she claimed when she was supposed to pay £27,000,000 in court costs, that she only had £300,000 worth of assests.

Shirley Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Cyfr

Absolutely! If this is allowed we will end up with more closing shops; more job losses, even less of a community that we have.

We still have such things as communities ? People are afraid to go out of their houses at certain times and in certain places.

It would be such a shame if we were limited to buying certain things in our own town, instead having to shop online or go elsewhere.

Do the independent retailers and market traders actually open the hours that the public want them to open ?

[andrewb]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

We still have such things as communities ? People are afraid to go out of their houses at certain times and in certain places.



Do the independent retailers and market traders actually open the hours that the public want them to open ?

You could say people are scared to go out of their houses, but why don't we rebuild that community feel rather than individualism. (Did I really just say that Garinda? )

I can appreciate that out of town supermarkets are good for people who work 7days a week 9-5 and whos partners (if they have one) also work the same. Not everyone works like that though and its those people im trying to get to

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Cyfr

You could say people are scared to go out of their houses, but why don't we rebuild that community feel rather than individualism. (Did I really just say that Garinda? )

Go on then ,lets check out your credentials as a future leader and see how you would do it

[Ianto.W.]

Andrew Hosken (see: Further reading) Nicholas Lezard described her as "...the most corrupt British political figure in living memory, with the possible exception of Robert Maxwell. " [1]. She retired to Israel in 1993 during the inquiry, and lived in self-imposed exile until 2006."Good grief Gary, thank's for the info, just to be mentioned in the same breath as the 'bouncing Chech' is bad enough, spend nowt with them".