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Are they any outwards signs of the recession in your local town?
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.......and Bournemouth Council looking to close public toilets. Now times must be hard when the council takes thousands from you but won't let you spend a penny.end the tv tax0
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I have
6 closed pubs.
4 closed EA's
2 closed Polish food shops
1 closed Woolies.Living Sober.
Some methods A.A. members have used for not drinking.
"A simple book for complicated people"0 -
In Lymington, I see another shop has closed down each time I visit:(An average day in my life:hello: :eek::mad: :coffee::coffee::coffee::T
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I am no expert in property but have lived in many types of homes, in many locations and can only talk from experience.0 -
The majority of the shops near us are one off independent stores, and we have a lot of non-chain restaurants and pubs, and a bunch of EAs (boo) plus a supermarket. The only things that have shut are one EA and Woolworths. It's going quite well! But then there is a bit of a support the community thing.0
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Frankly, the departure of 1950s throwback Woolworths from the high streets is a good thing. An utterly awful business that failed to adapt to the times; it didnt deserve to survive. I remember being in one in Norwich in the 1980s (just as people's tastes started to change) and it was empty then.0
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Frankly, the departure of 1950s throwback Woolworths from the high streets is a good thing. An utterly awful business that failed to adapt to the times; it didnt deserve to survive. I remember being in one in Norwich in the 1980s (just as people's tastes started to change) and it was empty then.
The problem is it opens a massive hole in the centre of the highstreet, and a lot of the shops around it are suffering from the hole. It doesn't take many shops closing before it becomes a chain reaction.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
RecoveringAlcoholic wrote: »I have
6 closed pubs.
4 closed EA's
2 closed Polish food shops
1 closed Woolies.
And the BOE as started QE.
(I Prefer the Christmas Version)0 -
Woolies and shutopia shut. 2 empty estate agents, the rest are promoting cheap price HIPs.
2 new card shops opened (Don't know why!)
1 restaurant openning soon.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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