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Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?
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Noah
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Brochure doesn't seem to be about Iceland -
https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/U9Lmwka5cmy_dlDh2I8p6JUd1ukPIy6fHHJe0ukZyr8/document.pdf
https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/U9Lmwka5cmy_dlDh2I8p6JUd1ukPIy6fHHJe0ukZyr8/document.pdf
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
Here's hoping! They do a decent range of Vegan, but if they don't always have enough shelf place to display it! a 'Wharehouse', would probably meet my needs! If they don't have been very impressed with Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's catering for the wierdo's! But Aldi after understandably having reduced their vegan range over the festive period, have pulled the stops out!
Sandy Bottoms
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Hello Rodger,the property is actually the corner block next to Sports Direct and not Iceland . Iceland is considerably more money.
Sandy Bottoms
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gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
Used to be Peacocks and I think its been shut for a couple of weeks! I could of course be wrong, and though I am delighted Iceland isn't departing, they do need to be more consistent in their Vegan range or my custom will be going elsewhere!
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Tumble weed
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Peacock's must have been closed for the best part of a year tbh.
Feed The Goat
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What lovely pictures of the flats.
The one pictured looks just like a show home.
All fourteen residents must be so house proud.
BobClay
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Found that pix of Salter Street interesting. How that corner has changed !!! Just down from the corner along Salter St (right hand side in this pix) is where I used to work as a junior reporter for the Staffordshire Advertiser. This is sometime before the corner was rebuilt. It was a pokey little office with one room downstairs and two up (where the evil old scrote of an editor worked.)
This was sometime in a pre Jurassic Era ....
This was sometime in a pre Jurassic Era ....
Tumble weed
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With Specsavers moving to the Guildhall later in the year, that's unfortunately going to leave two empty units at the bottom of the town.
The actual shop unit, and the offices across the street. Wonder if they'll quickly be snapped up, or if they'll be left to rot.
Hopefully, if we're lucky, building on the hotel should start soon, and something really needs to be done about the area that home bargains is in, it's literally turning into a shanty town, there's at least 3/4 homeless guys there now.
The actual shop unit, and the offices across the street. Wonder if they'll quickly be snapped up, or if they'll be left to rot.
Hopefully, if we're lucky, building on the hotel should start soon, and something really needs to be done about the area that home bargains is in, it's literally turning into a shanty town, there's at least 3/4 homeless guys there now.
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
With Specsavers moving to the Guildhall later in the year, at the bottom of the town.
it's literally turning into a shanty town, there's at least 3/4 homeless guys there now.
And I heard somewhere that rough sleeping across the UK! Very little evidence of that in 'Ford! I worked for 5years at a charity for homeless people in the 90's. It is still a massive, arguably growing problem, and it certainly isn't going away. No easy answers, a multifaceted problem, I certainly don't have any answers!
Cue
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And I heard somewhere that rough sleeping across the UK! Very little evidence of that in 'Ford! I worked for 5years at a charity for homeless people in the 90's. It is still a massive, arguably growing problem, and it certainly isn't going away. No easy answers, a multifaceted problem, I certainly don't have any answers!
It’s a solvable problem that the government doesn’t want to solve.
165% increase in homelessness since 2010 didn’t magically appear out of thin air, it’s deliberate.
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Tumble weed
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There's definitely not enough support for them, those with addictions need proper help, like rehab, not just a room over their heads. Those others who have become homeless are a bit harder to fix, they may have lost their jobs etc and couldn't pay the rent, but still, no one will employ you if you're in an unkempt way, so they all need help really.
littleme
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There's someone living in a tent in the tiny wooded area by Sainsburys (Chell Rd) can anyone (if any of you* have any contacts) check up on them, make sure they're ok, last year the 3 or 4 tents were moved on by the police, but this one's causing no problems so no-one has noticed yet.....With Specsavers moving to the Guildhall later in the year, that's unfortunately going to leave two empty units at the bottom of the town.
The actual shop unit, and the offices across the street. Wonder if they'll quickly be snapped up, or if they'll be left to rot.
Hopefully, if we're lucky, building on the hotel should start soon, and something really needs to be done about the area that home bargains is in, it's literally turning into a shanty town, there's at least 3/4 homeless guys there now.
* @gon2seed, do you have any contacts?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
You tend to find the ones in need don't make trouble, there used to be one up under the motorway bridge too but I don't go that way since they started building on the Creswell field.
joshua
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Chocolate retailer Thorntons has announced plans to permanently shut all its 61 stores - putting 603 jobs at risk in the latest blow to Britain's hard-hit high streets.
The British retailer has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has kept many of its stores shut for 'key trading periods' around Christmas and Easter.
Thorntons - which is owned by confectionery giant Ferrero - had pumped £45million into transforming its operations - including new store formats and cafes.
But plans were thrown into chaos when the pandemic hit - with the retail director Adam Goddard also blaming 'changing dynamics of the high street' for its demise.
While stores are no longer viable for the firm - which was founded in Sheffield in 1911 - it has seen sales surge online and hopes to grow its international supply business from its Alfreton factory.
The collapse of the business is the latest high-profile failure on the UK high street, which has been battered by large periods of closures and depressed footfall.
New figures this weekend revealed that more than 17,500 chain store outlets disappeared from high streets last year alone.
Retail director Adam Goddard said: 'Changing dynamics of the high street, shifting customer behaviour to online, the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and the numerous lockdown restrictions over the last year - especially during our key trading periods at Easter and Christmas - has meant we have been trading in the most challenging circumstances.
'Unfortunately like many others, the obstacles we have faced and will continue to face on the high street are too severe and despite our best efforts we have taken the difficult decision to permanently close our retail store estate.
'We will now go into full consultation with our colleagues.'
The British retailer has been hit hard by the pandemic, which has kept many of its stores shut for 'key trading periods' around Christmas and Easter.
Thorntons - which is owned by confectionery giant Ferrero - had pumped £45million into transforming its operations - including new store formats and cafes.
But plans were thrown into chaos when the pandemic hit - with the retail director Adam Goddard also blaming 'changing dynamics of the high street' for its demise.
While stores are no longer viable for the firm - which was founded in Sheffield in 1911 - it has seen sales surge online and hopes to grow its international supply business from its Alfreton factory.
The collapse of the business is the latest high-profile failure on the UK high street, which has been battered by large periods of closures and depressed footfall.
New figures this weekend revealed that more than 17,500 chain store outlets disappeared from high streets last year alone.
Retail director Adam Goddard said: 'Changing dynamics of the high street, shifting customer behaviour to online, the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and the numerous lockdown restrictions over the last year - especially during our key trading periods at Easter and Christmas - has meant we have been trading in the most challenging circumstances.
'Unfortunately like many others, the obstacles we have faced and will continue to face on the high street are too severe and despite our best efforts we have taken the difficult decision to permanently close our retail store estate.
'We will now go into full consultation with our colleagues.'
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
No great surprise really, they scuppered the store side of their businesses themselves by letting supermarkets dog their stuff for much less. Would have happened regardless of the pandemic.
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Gotta admit I thought they kept the shops open just to give the illusion of getting a good deal in the supermarkets, it'd be an expensive PR stunt though!