Jane Norman goes bust and Thornton closes stores - another bad week! 28th June 2011 11:44 PM
“Then you leave the High St to the leisure visitors (people going to the theatre, cinemas etc) and to the less mobile and less well off ... and surprisingly, they spend less money in the shops.”
Sad thing is you could see this coming years ago. Car parking got worse and worse, with charges rising, so you no longer just "pop" into town. Shop rents rise and rise so the independents let alone the chains struggle to keep themselves viable.
Then the big out of town retail park opens, and we all head over there. So what becomes of the high street, maybe it is now aimed at leisure visitors, although pubs are folding and a lot (although not all) restaurants seem to be struggling.
So there we go, Highstreet of the future,
hahahahahaha. ah well. I still think its a good idea 