Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

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markpa12003

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For some very strange reason the group I was out with on Friday night decided to go to butlers bell after visiting slaters. You could count the number of customers in the pub on 1 hand.

Slaters was busy.
 
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markpa12003

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PeterD said:
Seriously 5 or less in spoons, for all of its faults I have never seen it that quiet.
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Seriously. I counted them because I couldn't believe it. My group of 4 almost doubled the attendance.

I've been to Butlers Bell during the day and its usually busy but maybe not in the evening if Friday is typical.

I tend not to go to butlers bell or picture house on an evening because I stick to the best pubs in Stafford. On a night out I want quality beer so my pub crawl usually consists of the following floodgate, sun, no.7, bird, rose and crown and slaters. On occasions I will go to market vaults or the sun as well.
 
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Tumble weed

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Peacocks have updated their store window display to say it closes in like 3 weeks time, so looks like the landlord told them he'd rather have the place empty than accept a reduction in rent, not sure if the Edinburgh Wool Mill will follow suit as they were following a similar strategy.

As such , the peacocks closing down sale has started with 50% off whatever is left inside.
 
BobClay

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Ahh right, I saw it last August as I was sitting outside The Butler's Bell (which I'm still calling "Yate's Wine Lodge" as I believe that's how it started. Not that it had in anyway a similarity to the Yate's Wine Lodges I visited in Liverpool many Moons ago.)
I had a look on Google Earth street view which is dated July 2017 and wow, doesn't that end of the town look sad, or at least, did then. When I was there last August it was early on a warm summer evening and it appeared very pleasant.

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Bodger

Bodger

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Spoke to the nice lady in Peacocks and she confirmed they are shutting completely and not relocating :-(
 
Tilly

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Bodger said:
Spoke to the nice lady in Peacocks and she confirmed they are shutting completely and not relocating :-(
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Tumble weed said:
Peacocks have updated their store window display to say it closes in like 3 weeks time, so looks like the landlord told them he'd rather have the place empty than accept a reduction in rent, not sure if the Edinburgh Wool Mill will follow suit as they were following a similar strategy.

As such , the peacocks closing down sale has started with 50% off whatever is left inside.
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Peacocks is Edinburgh Wool Mill owned
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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joshua said:
moving to join aldi and b&m on kingsmead ?
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Possibly. I have only heard the first bit.

The rumours would suggest jobs are going, which might not be the case in a local move.

Who knows - all may become fairly clear shortly - if any of it is actually true...
 
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