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Hold on. On the one hand we're moaning about there being too many multinationals and not enough independents. And then the balance edges towards the independents and it's all doom and gloom. Make your minds up, peeps.Well if a large multinational loses faith in Stafford, what hope has anyone else got?
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/local-news/coffee-giant-starbucks-close-doors-649843
Hold on. On the one hand we're moaning about there being too many multinationals and not enough independents. And then the balance edges towards the independents and it's all doom and gloom. Make your minds up, peeps.
Whilst I agree with you, the problem is that at £58,000 p/a rent and all the rates etc. I suspect that this out prices independents and if no other chain comes to take on the lease we will be left with another empty unit.Hold on. On the one hand we're moaning about there being too many multinationals and not enough independents. And then the balance edges towards the independents and it's all doom and gloom. Make your minds up, peeps.
Hold on. On the one hand we're moaning about there being too many multinationals and not enough independents. And then the balance edges towards the independents and it's all doom and gloom. Make your minds up, peeps.
His 'best' has seen him get an increasing share of the vote at each election, however...At the end of the day if the multinationals can't afford to run a shop on the high street what hope do independents have! Glad to see our MP is still doing his absolute best for the town *rolls eyes*
His 'best' has seen him get an increasing share of the vote at each election, however...
How?!!!!I spent £85 in the market on Saturday, doing ma bit to help
Like a football stadium, he now bought the naming rights.How?!!!!
Being a county town has nothing to do with it. Towns up and down the country are struggling because of high rents and rates, lack of council support and most damningly through our shopping habits preferring large supermarkets instead of independent butchers, fruit and veg and fish monger shops.
How?!!!!
Being a county town has nothing to do with it. Towns up and down the country are struggling because of high rents and rates, lack of council support and most damningly through our shopping habits preferring large supermarkets instead of independent butchers, fruit and veg and fish monger shops.
Us preferring the all under one roof shopping centres, or retail parks and let us not forget internet shopping.
All of the latter are OUR doing and our choices hence why there are diminishing returns in town centres, because before all of the shopping centres, retail parks and internet town centres thrived.
But the biggest moaners are likely the ones who do not venture into town but moan and say to themelves. ` well I don't want to go to town, that is up to everyone else, but why less shops`
If people did not realise it our town centres need people looking around and spending to thrive. Whether it is a county town or not neither our excluded from the current difficulties faced which will only get WORSE.
You look at the counties largest metropolis by some distance and who many believe should be the county town.....Stoke on Trent, yet they are the biggest sufferer in the country.
Rugeley most certainly is not doing better, it's dreadful. Cannock is stagnating in the town centre, sadly and Burton, I never go to because, well, it's Burton.Yet other towns in the area seem to be doing better than Stafford. Rugeley, Cannock, Burton, Newport & Litchfield (ok city not town) all seem to have a smaller proportion of closed shops and a more flourishing atmosphere.