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Indoor Market
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joshua
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Mini go karts ?They have a lovely new event space to hire
Withnail
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Scalextric!
Withnail
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I've said it before, but hot-diggety-feck i'm going to say it again, there needs to be some sort of 'food court' arrangement type thing going on in there. Get street-food-style vendors selling cheap eats made with produce from the traders, have a stand with recipes for the things the punters have just eaten so they can buy the gear and make it at home, get people in, get them fed, get them spending on some good shit, send them home.
The 'fast food' options in this town are WOEFUL - there is a market for it, and ,lo, there is an Indoor Market for it as well.
The 'fast food' options in this town are WOEFUL - there is a market for it, and ,lo, there is an Indoor Market for it as well.
Problem is there won't be any retail to manage soon. That car tool /DIY stall seems to be the latest casualty.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
The reason that we have a lovely, new event space there is because all the previous stall-holders gave up, one after another.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Our market is frankly crap, and getting worse. You need something to pull people in, and like Withnail said food could be key. Something to eat on the hoof, as it were. I work in town, and don't have anywhere I actually want to eat. Give us somewhere cheap to grab a snack on the move that differs from the gregs rubbish.
littleme
250,000th poster!
Husband was quite interested in the advertised job when it was first advertised, only 2 things put him off....
1)The abysmal wage....
2)Despite advertising for a 'dynamic leader to increase stallholders & customers' - after speaking to several of the current stallholders he found that the current market manager is leaving as every suggestion she makes is blocked by the council....
There's no hope if the council won't back change & new dynamic propositions in order to increase both stallholders & customers....
1)The abysmal wage....
2)Despite advertising for a 'dynamic leader to increase stallholders & customers' - after speaking to several of the current stallholders he found that the current market manager is leaving as every suggestion she makes is blocked by the council....
There's no hope if the council won't back change & new dynamic propositions in order to increase both stallholders & customers....
basil
don't mention the blinds
Presumptive, I know. However I think my innovative plan for the University site trumps this ......
They won't want anything like that because it would interfere with the new LXB shopping centre. You know, the one financed by Stafford taxpayers for the benefit of needy Channel Islands tax evasionists.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
It's nice to know we're doing out bit.
markpa12003
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It would be even better if that square was called market square and located within the centre of the town. Oh and wouldn't it be great if it had nearby toilets (that were still open) too.
M&S/the swan are my toilets of choice when in town and needing to go. Cant think of any others apart from starbucks and maybe mcdonalds, although i imagine you might stumble fornicating youths in the mcdonalds toilets which is a bit off putting when you are trying to hold your aim.
Sk84goal
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I’m afraid that Stafford market is just a symptom of the Stafford town centre itself, where mediocre is considered cutting edge and shite is the norm. A town centre and market bereft of drive and innovation, a town stuck in some sort of self-imposed isolation 30 years behind the curve. A town where the most creative retailers appear to be the part time 60 something’s behind the charity shop counters.
Take the street food revolution that grew out of London and drove the quality and diversity of food available through the roof. In Stafford we have Mr Sizzle, as the only food vendor the council will allowed in our high street!
It’s almost as if we hate ourselves that due to some past misdemenors in a previous life we operate in a self-imposed hell forcing ourselves to walk past the same drab shops filled with the same drab crap eating the same shite food. Every now and then there is a slight glimmer of hope Bean Encounter, The Market Vaults, both trying to drag Stafford into at least 1995 but even as they form a small band of rebels that have the audacity to believe they deserve better. The council has decided to rollout a new hell. A shiny clean hell full of shiny chains selling the same crap but made more shiny with better lighting, shiny food with more air miles than Richard Branson made of ingredients so synthetic that they never age. A shiny hell separate and cut off from the old one so that a new breed of brain numbed shiny shoppers can roam around this shiny world in a heightened sense of ecstasy like a cross between that zombie film and the matrix.
As our brightest and best leave and we replace the young dreaming students with war weary squaddies hope seems far away.
Bu there is hope, allow the best Artists, Artisans, Innovators, free thinkers, coffee brewers, tea blenders, beer brewers, Food radicals to take over the Market, short term low rents and high quality entry requirements, pitch for a pitch, free guest invitation stalls for the best Artisans around the country. Evening markets with live music and local craft brewery run bars.
If you give the Creatives the space and support to innovate and pursue excellence they will produce the extraordinary!
Sorry for the ramble, got carried away.
Take the street food revolution that grew out of London and drove the quality and diversity of food available through the roof. In Stafford we have Mr Sizzle, as the only food vendor the council will allowed in our high street!
It’s almost as if we hate ourselves that due to some past misdemenors in a previous life we operate in a self-imposed hell forcing ourselves to walk past the same drab shops filled with the same drab crap eating the same shite food. Every now and then there is a slight glimmer of hope Bean Encounter, The Market Vaults, both trying to drag Stafford into at least 1995 but even as they form a small band of rebels that have the audacity to believe they deserve better. The council has decided to rollout a new hell. A shiny clean hell full of shiny chains selling the same crap but made more shiny with better lighting, shiny food with more air miles than Richard Branson made of ingredients so synthetic that they never age. A shiny hell separate and cut off from the old one so that a new breed of brain numbed shiny shoppers can roam around this shiny world in a heightened sense of ecstasy like a cross between that zombie film and the matrix.
As our brightest and best leave and we replace the young dreaming students with war weary squaddies hope seems far away.
Bu there is hope, allow the best Artists, Artisans, Innovators, free thinkers, coffee brewers, tea blenders, beer brewers, Food radicals to take over the Market, short term low rents and high quality entry requirements, pitch for a pitch, free guest invitation stalls for the best Artisans around the country. Evening markets with live music and local craft brewery run bars.
If you give the Creatives the space and support to innovate and pursue excellence they will produce the extraordinary!
Sorry for the ramble, got carried away.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I know what you mean, but that seems a bit harsh, really - the job is, essentially, is the leader of a suicide squad - unless the terrain changes very markedly.
