lokiuk
LE
Just live somewhere with decent 4g coverage, and you use that quite happily if you don't have metered internet usage on your phone
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Demise of the city centre
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LE
Just live somewhere with decent 4g coverage, and you use that quite happily if you don't have metered internet usage on your phone
Yokel
LE
But do we really want nothing but charity shops, fast food outlets, international coffee chain franchises, and the odd WH Smith or local newsagent? There is an unsettling look of decline and emptiness - for example seeing an empty shop with RES ASS above the boarded up door, nobody even removing the signage properly.
I find a certain irony, in the demise of the corner shop/local grocer/butcher/candlestick maker et al. This was brought about, in the fullness of time, by department stores branching out too. Then the supermarkets appeared, putting pressure on the big stores. Now the supermarkets, in some cases, are feeling the heat from the internet. An awful lot of arrses have been bitten on this merry - go - round.
I hope SWMBO isn't knackered after all the running about for pressies.
stacker1
LE
Turn them into accommodation, pointless throwing money at something people dont need.
What was that? I must be going a bit deaf/blind in my old age. I didn't quite catch that last word.
Nope. But the cultural differences don't go away.
Why? People will always want the personal interaction. That's one of the big sellers of the local shop.
stacker1
LE
So go to the pub or your mates house.
Its pretty sad if you need to socialise in Currys or River Island
Sana
Old-Salt
Currys and River Island are local shops?
stacker1
LE
You find them on the high street.
The man is a turd. I know you're not suggesting it, because it won't happen, but do you think for a moment that he'll give up any of his personal fortune to save anything of his 'empire'? He's made his money. He's off.
76mill
LE
The Otterbury Incident should be compulsory reading!
Sana
Old-Salt
Topman no longer: Philip Green's Arcadia falls into administration | ITV News
Arcadia is in administration but still trading and no redundancies have been announced yet.
www.itv.com
Arcadia falls into administration putting 13,000 jobs at risk – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group enters administration
www.theguardian.com
You were right.
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lokiuk
LE
solomon88
LE
Maybe, in 10+ years, the electric car thing won't work out as people assume it will, and out of town shops will have to come back to the centres.
lokiuk
LE
That would start the conspiracy theorists off, if every tenth city shop closed down
9G?
The question is why would he save Arcadia? It’s a moribund business that has been in decline for decades. The brands are hardly aspirational; who wants to shop at Burton or Dorothy Perkins? Chucking money at Arcadia would only delay the inevitable, an inevitable that was going to happen without Covid.
