The changing face of the high street

Chris2685

Gotta admit it usually makes me think 'ooo a sale'.

Fuchsia_a

wymondham wrote: »

Things must be getting bad as there are lots more pretty balloons appearing tied to shops/cars round this way.... Does this really make people buy things?

I saw a travel agent the other day that had balloons outside and it was offering free glasses of wine (they called it champagne, but the bottles perched by the window weren't). They must be getting a little desperate!

I can't imagine that many people who'd be drawn in by the free glass of wine being persuaded to buy a holiday while they're in there.

fc123

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

and why are there so MANY phones shops...? Every brand/network, in each high street competing away...


I am reminded of Douglas Adams' "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Switch mobile phone for shoe, its uncanny;

"Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet — people, cities, shops, a normal world. Except that on the high streets of these cities there were slightly more shoe shops than one might have thought necessary. And slowly, insidiously, the numbers of these shoe shops were increasing. It's a well known economic phenomenon but tragic to see it in operation, for the more shoe shops there were, the more shoes they had to make and the worse and more unwearable they became. And the worse they were to wear, the more people had to buy to keep themselves shod, and the more the shops proliferated, until the whole economy of the place passed what I believe is termed the Shoe Event Horizon, and it became no longer economically possible to build anything other than shoe shops. Result - collapse, ruin and famine."

Genius. Prophetic?

That's so interesting...could also be applied to the whole ''BTL is a productive industry'' too....sort of. I'm going to google the book now...cheers.