Saturday 26 March 2011
Big sighhhhh Oh dear..... just back from the town, not been there for a while have been confined to the house feeling quite unwell. Feeling much better now and off I went to pick up a few things and settle a couple of bills. What did I find?? The number of empty premises on the High street has increased. I counted 4 shops in a row standing empty, another two with closing down sales and even a charity shop and a charity led cafe and second hand book shop sitting empty. There were more empty shops at the other end of the High street and even our tiny shopping precinct has two of larger premises sitting empty. This is a small town, population about 27,000..............seems this recession is getting very real.
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ReplyDeleteIt is happening there what has been happening in my hometown for a couple of years now. It is heart-breaking. Every store closed represents a loss of jobs. Jobs lost = people unable to support families. And lives uprooted.
ReplyDeleteyes.............its horrible, the loss of jobs etc is bad enough but the more shops that close the worse the town looks and the less other businesses want to come here. Its one big vicious circle. I don't know how things work there but here I know one of the reasons businesses find it difficult to survive is because they have to pay business rates to the local council Seems to me the council would benefit more from having these premises trading even if it meant getting lower business rates from them than they do if the premises sit empty
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you are feeling better but a shame about the High Street but it is becoming more and more common. I live near where they are building another Westfields - near the Olympic site and I do wonder how it will manage to survive.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same here. It started with the closing of specialty shops, boutiques and small bakeries. Now the smaller neighborhood chain store branches are closing. The shopping experience has become massive crowded corporate stores like Target and Walmart and what we call box stores, large discount warehouse stores that carry institutional size products, like loo paper in 50 roll packages and potatoes in 25 pounds sacks. Neighbors actually do cooperative shopping, sort of 'shop and share.'
ReplyDeletenice idea...............maybe my daughters would share with me. Just did my few bits of shopping in Lidl because its the cheapest in town. I dare not look at the ethics of the company because, with things the way they are, I don't have a lot of choice, I have to shop at the cheapest store. And sure enough I just bought a pack of 10 toilet rolls............sharing seems like a good idea
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling better. I do most of my food shopping at the cheapest place in my area. We have Lidl's too but I have to travel to get to one. Now all this money is being spent to keep Gadafi in power.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same in the local towns here Loretta. Both Pembroke and Pembroke Dock are losing small businesses at an alarming rate. I've spoken to some of the remaining small traders and most of them agree that the 'business rates' set by the local council are far too high and are contributing to the demise of so many businesses.
ReplyDeleteit so sad to see those types of businesses close.... the recession is real, seems no place is untouched....
ReplyDeleteglad you are feeling better.... more people sick this year than I can count... sigh...
oh no, not the second hand book shop! and the op shop! there goes the cheap'n'cheerful shopping. Sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you're better tho'.
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