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Who uses the high street?
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I'd shop on the high street heaps more if shops were open til 10 at night...And I think a lot of people would.
Not sure about the butchers, though...it only works if you have the "complete" old high street...Butcher, baker, green grocer, off licence...I'm not going driving from place to place...And their prices would need to be competitive...oh, and the baker would need to be open at 6AM, so I could get my fresh bread...There are plenty of reasons these kind of stores failed...0 -
That's true enough but a lot of them don't even seem to try.Idiophreak wrote: »There are plenty of reasons these kind of stores failed...
Meanwhile, the hoi polloi just buy whatever is on offer and the quality of food is ever decreasing.0 -
your post is rude but in answer to the question people are shooting themselves in the foot if they buy everything in the supermarket. We need small shops, we dont want to live in a land where there are only supermarkets.
Personally i feel meat should be bought from a butcher. He does propering butchering, knows his job and can give help and advice. The meat is a good quality too. Old butchers would turn in their graves now if they heard the word value sausages what are they? What is in them?
Supermarkets are greedy and aggressive and dont care who they put out of business. They are not butchers not in the proper sense of the word they are grocers.:footie:0 -
If you think the meat that Tesco produces is worth the same as an independent butcher, then you are either one of those completely uncouth people to whom I previously referred as !!!!!! or you've never been to a half decent butchers.
Actually to someone like me who for reasons beyond your limited comprehension is unable to fully taste what i'm eating or actually eat certain foods it makes not a blind bit of difference. Truth be told with the limited taste sensations i have left coupled with the fact everything i eat has to either be covered in sauce/gravy or be extremely moist you could sit the ar*e end of a cow down to me and it'd be no different to the best cut.
The sad and alltogether soul destroying truth is that while nothing would please me more than a dirty big slab of beef the size of a small town from a quality butchers i simply cannot eat it. That's why someone like me will often times go to a supermarket & select a product which in full knowledge of the fact i can't taste it conforms to my dietery requirements at a price whereby i'm not paying through the nose for something when it has only the "nutritional" benefit to me. I would much rather use my funds in a manner which benefits me fully rather than buying a butchers roasting joint which i would only recieve limited benefit from.Retired member - fed up with the general tone of the place.0 -
The reason alot of butchers arent open in the evenings is cos they are usually a one man band, or small team and they cant work all day and night without a break. Supermarkets have more staff. Its not hard to work out?
They are open Saturdays tho and i am sure if you put in a order often they might deliver it for you?
If people starting using butchers abit more they might be able to take more staff on and open more hours?:footie:0
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