Malcolm
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You'll wait a long time for an answer. I've tried and given up. I would vote for him though. Shame he doesn't have the courage of his convictions.
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Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?
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Noah
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
The Hawk
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HopesDad
Don't feed the troll
Hahaha talk about taking things out of context.
Those randomly-chosen words were selected from a survey carried out over a year ago about shop closures. It was comparing crap towns in the midlands and made the point that very slightly fewer places had closed down in Stafford than in sh1tholes like Wolverhampton, bloxwich and Cannock. At the time of the survey, Marks and Spencer, the old Co-Op, Dorothy Perkins and many others were still open and the true destruction of the town caused by the opening of the riverside precinct had not started.
If the survey were to be carried out now, the results would be very different indeed.
As I have repeatedly said, look at the reality not the hype.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Yes. It's never good when someone uses the word 'bloxwich'. It demonstrates disrespect for the forum and illiteracy.Reported - profanity
Shameful.
Thehooperman
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How do you know it was over a year ago? The report just says last year doesn't it?
Why don't you try supporting Stafford's shops instead of slagging off the town you obviously hate?
Just think we may have overtaken Lichfield (another sh1thole???? mentioned in the report) if you'd been bothered to shop locally.
FrehleysComet
A few posts under my belt
Trolls gonna troll.
I will be honest, with regards to the Local Data Company I have always been sketchy about when they say a town is xx% empty. They actually do not do an overall count, they just look at one area of a town/ city and average. Their figures can be very off.
Hence why alot of town councils get in a tiss about their data.
However, more simplistic counts ( openings / closures) are more routine and at least reliable.
This data is good news for Stafford, as at the end of the day the town is outperforming other regional trends.
2017 could be even better with the old greenwoods,
shoe zone,
db roberts
capital applicances (by SBC) all now taken.
With 2 new shops due to open in salter st,
another 2 in mill street,
another at riverside gallery,
coal at riverside,
a new retailer (tba) at riverside will be announced very soon,
subway reopening,
all 3 units under staffs place now taken in, restaurant at the tavern,
b&m and aldi soon to open,
warren james and another new shop (tbc) in the guildhall,
new venue at chambers,
similarly new line up at the bird in hand
and the start of the cinema build.......it could be a very good year for the town in 2017.
Of course no doubt there will be a negative in all of that.......you all know what I mean
Hence why alot of town councils get in a tiss about their data.
However, more simplistic counts ( openings / closures) are more routine and at least reliable.
This data is good news for Stafford, as at the end of the day the town is outperforming other regional trends.
2017 could be even better with the old greenwoods,
shoe zone,
db roberts
capital applicances (by SBC) all now taken.
With 2 new shops due to open in salter st,
another 2 in mill street,
another at riverside gallery,
coal at riverside,
a new retailer (tba) at riverside will be announced very soon,
subway reopening,
all 3 units under staffs place now taken in, restaurant at the tavern,
b&m and aldi soon to open,
warren james and another new shop (tbc) in the guildhall,
new venue at chambers,
similarly new line up at the bird in hand
and the start of the cinema build.......it could be a very good year for the town in 2017.
Of course no doubt there will be a negative in all of that.......you all know what I mean
Malcolm
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How could these morons make it better..?
Wolves uni taking one, the same company that runs the rather nice Capello Lounge in Newcastle taking another. Don't know about the third.
Carole
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I was in Stafford on Friday and got approached by a lady and her teenage daughter asking "where is Primark please?"
I was walking that way anyway, back to my car so we walked and chatted.
They had come on the train from Lichfield purely to visit Primark. The daughters eyes lit up when I said that there was Outfit, River Island and H&M.
Just goes to show that people have heard of our new development and are happy to come and visit.
I was walking that way anyway, back to my car so we walked and chatted.
They had come on the train from Lichfield purely to visit Primark. The daughters eyes lit up when I said that there was Outfit, River Island and H&M.
Just goes to show that people have heard of our new development and are happy to come and visit.
Just a shame the new development was pushed out as far as possible from the centre of the town centre. The retail units should have started where the cinema is to be built and vice versa. The cynic in me suspects the Grand Plan was to make Staffordshire Place as the new centre of Stafford.
Malcolm
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Also nice that you took the trouble to actually take them there. That sort of thing probably goes further in creating a good impression of the town. It's the people who make the town what it is - good or bad. Before I came to live here I heard that Stafford people were rude. When I lived and worked amongst them, I generally found the opposite.
Malcolm
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I think as the town expands the development will no longer be on the fringe.
Gramaisc
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Five minutes and thirty four seconds was recorded when the route was initially tested, but the five minute barrier is almost certainly breakable by a determined shopper, I'm sure.
