Will soon just be Supermarkets, Coffee shops & Nandos
Hopefully it might allow small independents back on the market. Electrical shops and camera shops used to be family businesses on most hhigh streets. You rarely find one these days thanks to the giants llike Comet and Jessops who aggressivly and deliberatly put them out of business.
My local highstreet is filled with empty shopfronts and due for another as our Blockbuster has announced it's closing,if Wimpy does go than that is another empty unit in a prime location. Sad times
Wilkinson is the 'new' Woolworth .. how long will it last ? ... most any chain relying on book, music and DVD sales is in danger. The Co-op will have a lingering death and ... wait for it ..... Morrisons and M&S will need to downsize to survive against the likes of Asda, Aldi and Tesco, 3 HUGE companies with fingers in every conceivable pie
Judging by the queues almost every time i go there, i can't see Morrisons closing any time soon
Wilkinson is the 'new' Woolworth .. how long will it last ? ... most any chain relying on book, music and DVD sales is in danger. The Co-op will have a lingering death and ... wait for it ..... Morrisons and M&S will need to downsize to survive against the likes of Asda, Aldi and Tesco, 3 HUGE companies with fingers in every conceivable pie
Judging by the queues almost every time i go there, i can't see Morrisons closing any time soon
are you sure that the queues are not down to 'downsizing' staff numbers ? .. I agree, still very busy stores but my friends' daughter who works in a large Morro unit says that customer numbers and individual spends are declining slowly but surely ...... Last word .. Morrisons are making attempts to go 'up market', regular patrons don't want that, that is why basic 'warehouse' units like Aldi are becoming more and more popular
Wilkinson is the 'new' Woolworth .. how long will it last ? ... most any chain relying on book, music and DVD sales is in danger. The Co-op will have a lingering death and ... wait for it ..... Morrisons and M&S will need to downsize to survive against the likes of Asda, Aldi and Tesco, 3 HUGE companies with fingers in every conceivable pie
Judging by the queues almost every time i go there, i can't see Morrisons closing any time soon
are you sure that the queues are not down to 'downsizing' staff numbers ? .. I agree, still very busy stores but my friends' daughter who works in a large Morro unit says that customer numbers and individual spends are declining slowly but surely ...... Last word .. Morrisons are making attempts to go 'up market', regular patrons don't want that, that is why basic 'warehouse' units like Aldi are becoming more and more popular
Well a quick look online tells me they made £440m profit from Jan-July 2012 and £935m profit in 2011. So they're not exactly struggling. And they're about to finally launch online shopping and home delivery.
Wilkinson is the 'new' Woolworth .. how long will it last ? ... most any chain relying on book, music and DVD sales is in danger. The Co-op will have a lingering death and ... wait for it ..... Morrisons and M&S will need to downsize to survive against the likes of Asda, Aldi and Tesco, 3 HUGE companies with fingers in every conceivable pie
Judging by the queues almost every time i go there, i can't see Morrisons closing any time soon
are you sure that the queues are not down to 'downsizing' staff numbers ? .. I agree, still very busy stores but my friends' daughter who works in a large Morro unit says that customer numbers and individual spends are declining slowly but surely ...... Last word .. Morrisons are making attempts to go 'up market', regular patrons don't want that, that is why basic 'warehouse' units like Aldi are becoming more and more popular
Well a quick look online tells me they made £440m profit from Jan-July 2012 and £935m profit in 2011. So they're not exactly struggling. And they're about to finally launch online shopping and home delivery.
we will see .. Online and home delivery might well put them in trouble .... Sainsbury home delivery runs at a loss for example .. I don't know about Tesco et al .. I didn't say Morrisons will go under, just that as one of the 'smaller' grocers in competition with the real giants, downsizing is a distinct possibility, as with M&S and probably Sainsbury
I don't think it'll be Next, they're going great guns. The City love them at the moment, shares have gone through the roof.
Glad to hear it. I was only trying to be amusing and don't want anyone out of work or bankrupt etc.
Didn't mean to imply otherwise, it was just topical for me as I was looking at the top growth shares on the FTSE the other day and was pretty surprised that they were so successful of late.
I always thought Next was the kind of shop where an elderly relative might get you a T-shirt for a Christmas present, not a shop anyone would actively seek out for their clothes shopping. Clearly, if my uninformed view was ever right, they're making a great job of turning the place around.
Sad to see Blockies go, another nail in the coffin for recorded media.
Do question the mentality of some companies in opening units that are clearly not going to work.
WH Smith opened a unit opposite Cannon St a few months ago, i laughed when i saw it and thought i wonder how long this will last as it is never going to work. It's position is just wrong, and its frontage (like @DaveMehmet), is particularly uninviting.
I've barely seen anyone go in there over the past few months.
What with Jessops and Blockbusters gone, that's 9,000 retail jobs lost in just a few days.
Plus 4,500 staff hanging on by the skin of their teeth at HMV, knowing that casualties among them will be devastating or the risk of all stores closing if a buyer is not found.
Apart from these chain stores, there's other smaller shops closing daily - like others have said of their's, my nearest city centre is scarred with dozens of empty shops.
And then there will be the domino effect on suppliers who will also lose a big part of their business, plus all the support structures that these businesses use.
Many families will be affected by the breadwinner being put out of work, in areas where there will be very few job vacancies.
What with Jessops and Blockbusters gone, that's 9,000 retail jobs lost in just a few days.
Plus 4,500 staff hanging on by the skin of their teeth at HMV, knowing that casualties among them will be devastating or the risk of all stores closing if a buyer is not found.
Apart from these chain stores, there's other smaller shops closing daily - like others have said of their's, my nearest city centre is scarred with dozens of empty shops.
And then there will be the domino effect of suppliers who will also lose a big part of their business, plus all the support structures that these businesses use.
So many families will be affected by the breadwinner being put out of work, in areas where there will be very few job vacancies.
exactly .. we need to enlarge the Army and invade Germany .. but seriously, there are so few alternative jobs for young people who were told that their 2:2 would be a passport to riches .. a renewal of mass manufacturing is the ONLY answer .. but against cheap chinese conscripted/state controlled labour ? ..
Yeah i never understand why restaurants do that. Opposite the Three Blackbirds at Blendon there was a perfectly decent curry house (Saggor) and then about 3 years ago, another one opened 2-3 doors away. They're both still there but surely the newer one could've found a better spot.
It's a third world thing. Here, and in many countries in Asia and South America, one business opens successfully so someone else opens next door and this continues until you have a whole street of shops/stalls selling exactly the same thing. It's readily seen on the highways when you will literally have 100 stalls together selling, for example, watermelons or bananas.
But big businesses also follow this model. If a major supermarket opens in a Thai town, it's likely that another of the big players will open a short distance away within a matter of months. Even banks do the same. A fifth bank is about to open within one minute's walk of our guesthouse, in between two other banks, and there's probably only enough business for one or two at most.
Back in the UK I reckon WH Smith will survive, I am surprised Blockbuster lasted as long as it did, and BHS will be next.
As for Morrison's, remember they are predominantly a northern chain and I would guess still have a big market share up there. And even in Peckham when I was there recently, Morrison's was much busier than Lidl.
Yeah i never understand why restaurants do that. Opposite the Three Blackbirds at Blendon there was a perfectly decent curry house (Saggor) and then about 3 years ago, another one opened 2-3 doors away. They're both still there but surely the newer one could've found a better spot.
It's a third world thing. Here, and in many countries in Asia and South America, one business opens successfully so someone else opens next door and this continues until you have a whole street of shops/stalls selling exactly the same thing. It's readily seen on the highways when you will literally have 100 stalls together selling, for example, watermelons or bananas.
Pretty much the same in China, have entire blocks of 100's of shops all selling computer parts.
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Judging by the queues almost every time i go there, i can't see Morrisons closing any time soon
Well a quick look online tells me they made £440m profit from Jan-July 2012 and £935m profit in 2011. So they're not exactly struggling.
And they're about to finally launch online shopping and home delivery.
I always thought Next was the kind of shop where an elderly relative might get you a T-shirt for a Christmas present, not a shop anyone would actively seek out for their clothes shopping. Clearly, if my uninformed view was ever right, they're making a great job of turning the place around.
Sad to see Blockies go, another nail in the coffin for recorded media.
Oi!
Plus 4,500 staff hanging on by the skin of their teeth at HMV, knowing that casualties among them will be devastating or the risk of all stores closing if a buyer is not found.
Apart from these chain stores, there's other smaller shops closing daily - like others have said of their's, my nearest city centre is scarred with dozens of empty shops.
And then there will be the domino effect on suppliers who will also lose a big part of their business, plus all the support structures that these businesses use.
Many families will be affected by the breadwinner being put out of work, in areas where there will be very few job vacancies.
Think fads, woolwich, allsport etc
Best of luck to them all with keeping their current jobs/finding new ones.
But big businesses also follow this model. If a major supermarket opens in a Thai town, it's likely that another of the big players will open a short distance away within a matter of months. Even banks do the same. A fifth bank is about to open within one minute's walk of our guesthouse, in between two other banks, and there's probably only enough business for one or two at most.
Back in the UK I reckon WH Smith will survive, I am surprised Blockbuster lasted as long as it did, and BHS will be next.
As for Morrison's, remember they are predominantly a northern chain and I would guess still have a big market share up there. And even in Peckham when I was there recently, Morrison's was much busier than Lidl.