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Mothercare shutting 107 stores
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historically. now much easier with home delivery for the less mobile to get what they need. the wonders of technology,eh? believe it or not even OAPs can navigate internet shopping or have a relative do it for them. my friend regularly orders tesco supermarket deliveries for her elderly mother who is too frail to make it to the shops - even the high street requires a walk and then you have to carry everything back.
personally i think people are generally wary of change even when what they are protecting is highly questionable.
Great. So they never get to leave their house. Just sit in waiting for the internet delivery driver and their mass produced bread instead of buying a nice loaf along with the eggs after getting out in the community for half an hour.
I suppose we should stop them getting their pensions from the post office too? They won't need cash no longer anyway. Could pay it straight into their bank accounts so they can sit there all day just looking at the tele box awaiting everyone to do everything for them.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Are you a City dweller?
yes but i don't really see what that has to do with it. i spent a large section of my childhood in a village with no shop. the old people still managed to eat somehow.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
i mean are you seriously going to feel a loss of community / social life if there are no shops on the high street? it's just a line of buildings filled with stuff for you to pay money for, staffed by fairly bored people. no great loss if it goes imho.
what is the problem?
the shopkeepers on our local streets are friends and acquaintances as much as "fairly bored people", though!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »the shopkeepers on our local streets are friends and acquaintances as much as "fairly bored people", though!
Also generates micro economic activity such as employment, cross trading etc.0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »
I do like ELC though.
the branding is genius. basically a toy shop but with a name that makes it sound so much more worthy.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »the shopkeepers on our local streets are friends and acquaintances as much as "fairly bored people", though!
really? i'm so anti-social. i say hello to the people in the local shops but we don't stop to have dinner and discuss our latest life events. funny place to socialise with your mates isn't it? the local off licence......
i'm sure you could still invite them round for tea. if you're such good mates that is.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0
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