What can realistically be done with the old Co-Op?

proactive

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What about the girls, whose guys have shopping addictions? Somewhere I can sit and stare at a clock and give the odd tut would be great....

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Guys' shopping addictions?

You mean Halfords and Curry's TV section?
 
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Gramaisc

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Guys' shopping addictions?

You mean Halfords and Curry's TV section?
There was a time when you could see things to look at in the town - County Woodware, Motorcycle Mecca, Bagnall's, Dixon's, Rumbelow's, Rediffusion, Tom Reekie, Resales, Lotus Records, Millet's, Wakefield's, Bedson's, the back of Woolworth's, Tandy, even Marley...

There could well be others, I can't see through the tears to type now.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
There was a time when you could see things to look at in the town - County Woodware, Motorcycle Mecca, Bagnall's, Dixon's, Rumbelow's, Rediffusion, Tom Reekie, Resales, Lotus Records, Millet's, Wakefield's, Bedson's, the back of Woolworth's, Tandy, even Marley...

There could well be others, I can't see through the tears to type now.
I could spend a whole afternoon in Tandy, and then the rest of the day browsing the catalogue. As for Bagnalls, don't even get me started on the upstairs section.
 

littleme

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I don't believe I'm the only woman who hates shopping either.... High fives to all of us who order online and have it delivered, who know exactly what they want, where it is, and go buy it, who don't spend hours and hours trundling round shops to buy the first thing you noticed in the first shop you visited....


... I don't dance either....
 

Lucy

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I don't believe I'm the only woman who hates shopping either.... High fives to all of us who order online and have it delivered, who know exactly what they want, where it is, and go buy it, who don't spend hours and hours trundling round shops to buy the first thing you noticed in the first shop you visited....


... I don't dance either....

That's me. I would dance if I ever went anywhere to dance though.
 

Wormella

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I don't believe I'm the only woman who hates shopping either.... High fives to all of us who order online and have it delivered, who know exactly what they want, where it is, and go buy it, who don't spend hours and hours trundling round shops to buy the first thing you noticed in the first shop you visited....


... I don't dance either....

I like shopping as a leisure activity if it's in a big city, peppered with lunch, cocktails and with lovely people. And especially if I don't actually need to buy anything specific.

Even in a slightly more cut down version here I enjoy 'having a mooch around TKmaxx' (it's the only shop in town where I can't visualise exactly what's in it and that's exciting) If I'm trying to get ideas, or bouncing around charity shops if my wardrobe needs a pick me up.

Those to me are very different things from 'I have these things on my list, and I know exactly where in Stafford to get them and if town doesn't have then I'll get it delivered or I'll click and collect something to pick up.

I always welcome more shops in town, Stafford is so small and easy to navigate to and additions to that are very welcome. Equally I welcome more housing in town because that will help keep the shops we do have open.

(I also love dancing but rarely have the opportunity to do that)
 

BobClay

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I went shopping in an Ikea in Birmingham once. It was five hours before I got out !!! ... Not because I wanted to buy anything, I didn't, but because the battery went in the GPS and I got lost. :eek:

:P
 

Cirrus

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Perhaps they could turn it into The Great British Kitchen, well i think that's what it was going to be called, on St Georges site. I'm guessing the kitchen is still upstairs in the cafe. :hmm:
 

Tumble weed

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So whilst passing the place today, I saw a collection of rubble on the floor, thinking the builders had started work, I peeped through the windows, it's not the builders, the ceiling is just collapsing inside the place. If that's what downstairs looks like, I dread to think what upstairs looks like.

It's going to deteriorate to such an extent, the whole block including the front shops on the high street are going to become compromised.
 

Bob

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As long as it’s structurally sound it just wants cladding, it’s amazing the wonders of a bit of fa face lift.

Split the bottom onto individual shops, push for independent retailers, fill it with the stuff you can’t or would prefer not to buy online then convert the top into flats.
 

Cue

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So whilst passing the place today, I saw a collection of rubble on the floor, thinking the builders had started work, I peeped through the windows, it's not the builders, the ceiling is just collapsing inside the place. If that's what downstairs looks like, I dread to think what upstairs looks like.

It's going to deteriorate to such an extent, the whole block including the front shops on the high street are going to become compromised.

Ooer, that’s not good. Just a hole in the ceiling inside the place?

As long as it’s structurally sound it just wants cladding, it’s amazing the wonders of a bit of fa face lift.

Split the bottom onto individual shops, push for independent retailers, fill it with the stuff you can’t or would prefer not to buy online then convert the top into flats.

That’d work quite well, especially as there’s stairs that are already separated from the store area
 

Tumble weed

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There are a number of pigeons now inside the co-op, and it seems to have a nice water feature running through it from the look at the ceiling and walls.
 

Trumpet

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Strong smell of damp coming from the corner door opening onto the precinct, large portion of the ceiling down too.
 

Cue

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Why would you just let your building rot like that, surely it will only ever cost more money than maintaining it?
 

Mudgie

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Not if your ultimate aim is to provide cause to demolish it
Yes, all too often that happens.
Like with the Eagle a demolition team starts taking the roof tiles off until I notify the Council who get it stopped, then there's rain damage like water damage in the Co-op now. The Eagle's still there of course but it's not much use no longer a pub.
 
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