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Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Tue Aug 06 2019 11:24am
by blythburgh
Boro Boy wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 10:29am

Use to be: Quality, service, product knowledge....
Go to the independent butcher, greengrocer, bakery, delicatessen for that

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Tue Aug 06 2019 11:41pm
by Boro Boy
blythburgh wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 11:24am
Boro Boy wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 10:29am

Use to be: Quality, service, product knowledge....
Go to the independent butcher, greengrocer, bakery, delicatessen for that
I hear what you say but my experience is most of these stores have closed for a number of reasons but a consistent factor is that the children who take over the family concerns usually never work as hard as their parents did. They don't work the same long hours and if they are not available people naturally start shopping elsewhere... :think:

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Wed Aug 07 2019 6:24am
by BeautifulSunshine
Boro Boy wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 10:29am
AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 8:58am
kevinchess1 wrote:
Mon Aug 05 2019 10:49pm


I'm guessing 'Every Lidl helps!'
Quality, variety and competitive. A recipe for success.
Use to be: Quality, service, product knowledge....
You reference a bygone era.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Wed Aug 07 2019 7:45am
by Boro Boy
AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Wed Aug 07 2019 6:24am
Boro Boy wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 10:29am
AAAlphaThunder wrote:
Tue Aug 06 2019 8:58am


Quality, variety and competitive. A recipe for success.
Use to be: Quality, service, product knowledge....
You reference a bygone era.
Once gone never to return...

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 4:18pm
by Boro Boy

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 7:42pm
by teamsmith
I have a feeling this will be a never ending trend.... until the high street has been decimated forever.... I'm not sure anyone is going to be able to reverse the decline :(

Depressing to say the least....

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 8:10pm
by Boro Boy
Its not just hitting the larger high street stores: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... s-16796822 :crazy:

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 8:15pm
by pabenny
The Morrisons closures are no big deal for the retail scene as a whole (obviously they are for the staff affected). It gets picked up as part of the general malaise of the high street. although retailers have always closed underperforming stores.

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 8:34pm
by Constantine
Boro Boy wrote:
Thu Aug 22 2019 4:18pm
Yet more to join the dole queue: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/busines ... spartanntp
Fortunately it is a very short dole queue these days.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlab ... employment

Re: 40 stores to close... (part 4)

Posted: Thu Aug 22 2019 8:41pm
by Constantine
teamsmith wrote:
Thu Aug 22 2019 7:42pm
I have a feeling this will be a never ending trend.... until the high street has been decimated forever.... I'm not sure anyone is going to be able to reverse the decline :(

Depressing to say the least....

Why? Things change. The world moves on.