Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

kyoto49

kyoto49

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bunique said:
Queensville car park was mobbed today, so still plenty of people spending money.
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Shopping. It's all people know how to do nowadays. Gone are family days out, country walks, board games, family films. Sunday is a day to drag your kids round retail parks to buy nasty materialistic tat made in China. Although this is a slightly contoversial comment, having worked in Matalan its based on actual facts and evidence observed.
 
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bunique

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kyoto49 said:
Shopping. It's all people know how to do nowadays. Gone are family days out, country walks, board games, family films. Sunday is a day to drag your kids round retail parks to buy nasty materialistic tat made in China. Although this is a slightly contoversial comment, having worked in Matalan its based on actual facts and evidence observed.
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It’s quite possible to do all those things as well. I doubt your 10 minute glimpse in Matalan told you everything about a family.
 
Lucy

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You only saw 10 minutes of the people's lives.

Tar everyone with the same brush if you must but I don't only know how to shop. However, if I am going to shop it's probably going to be on a Sunday as I'm at work in the week and often do other things on a Saturday.
 
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gilesjuk

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I had to go to Queens retail park to get dog food. My new addition deciding she no longer likes the raw food I moved her onto. I'm pretty bad at having human food in stock as well because the co-op is a lousy supermarket these days if you're a veggie. They might as well close the frozen section it is so badly stocked.

I put this down to them having a monopoly over the Wildwood, Baswich and Weeping Cross area. Sure, ALDI exists but I think that is a different customer section, but it is loads better since the refit.
 
kyoto49

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My sister who grew up here but took her chance to escape has just walked up our High Street and said this

"My god, Stafford is even more desolate than last time. The only young centre shops are banks, vapes and mobile shops, its mad!

I can't believe it, there is nowhere to spend your money!"

Anyone who doesn't think Stafford is a home made dead end disaster needs to get out more....mainly the Council I realise!
 
Theresa Green

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kyoto49 said:
My sister who grew up here but took her chance to escape has just walked up our High Street and said this

"My god, Stafford is even more desolate than last time. The only young centre shops are banks, vapes and mobile shops, its mad!

I can't believe it, there is nowhere to spend your money!"

Anyone who doesn't think Stafford is a home made dead end disaster needs to get out more....mainly the Council I realise!
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What’s the solution?


Surely you don’t expect Amazon and Google to pay taxes?

Whatever next? People leaving their homes?

Ridiculous!
 
tek-monkey

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kyoto49 said:
Probably not to keep building more shops?
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But if they don't build more shops how will they get what little money we have left?

I do agree, the UK has replaced leisure with shopping. Rather than build things that attract people then try to sell those people stuff we instead focus on the selling and ignore a reason for them to visit in the first place.
 
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gilesjuk

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Mudgie said:
Have you tried getting a bone from the butchers ?
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They like bones. This is raw chicken, it is more natural for them. But while I could get other meats my greyhound doesn't like them. I guess having the same food every day gets boring. But greyhounds are notorious for making the most ungodly smells and the raw food stops that.

As for high street etc, why people blame Amazon I've no idea. It is a completely different business model that is never going away. If they paid more taxes they would just pass it onto us in price rises. It wouldn't make the high street viable. High streets are open when people are at work, they belong in the era when the husband went to work and the wife stayed at home with the kids and went into town to spend the housekeeping money. Try opening from 12pm to 8pm if you want to make the high street viable again. No shortage of people shopping in out of town retail parks that open until 8pm!!!

We can thank the government for ruining what was left of the high street by closing it all and allowing mail order businesses to carry on as normal.
 
Wormella

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gilesjuk said:
They like bones. This is raw chicken, it is more natural for them. But while I could get other meats my greyhound doesn't like them. I guess having the same food every day gets boring. But greyhounds are notorious for making the most ungodly smells and the raw food stops that.

As for high street etc, why people blame Amazon I've no idea. It is a completely different business model that is never going away. If they paid more taxes they would just pass it onto us in price rises. It wouldn't make the high street viable. High streets are open when people are at work, they belong in the era when the husband went to work and the wife stayed at home with the kids and went into town to spend the housekeeping money. Try opening from 12pm to 8pm if you want to make the high street viable again. No shortage of people shopping in out of town retail parks that open until 8pm!!!

We can thank the government for ruining what was left of the high street by closing it all and allowing mail order businesses to carry on as normal.
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12 - 8 pm. Would indeed give me so much more chance to pop into town and pick things up.
 
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gilesjuk

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Wormella said:
12 - 8 pm. Would indeed give me so much more chance to pop into town and pick things up.
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I suspect there's all sorts of reasons why they won't do it. People in retail having kids in schools etc. Planning rules, noise etc..

But there's a reason why supermarkets sell so much beyond food, they've realised that people don't want to wait until Saturday and Sunday to buy things.

Years ago I did used to go into Stafford town centre for lunch, mostly just to get something to eat. I did browse shops, but times have changed. Parking companies for starters, parking somewhere like Currys car park or the TK Maxx car park and walking into town gets you a fine now. I'd never have bothered going into town if I had to pay.
 
The Notorious A.N.T.

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kyoto49 said:
My sister who grew up here but took her chance to escape has just walked up our High Street and said this

"My god, Stafford is even more desolate than last time. The only young centre shops are banks, vapes and mobile shops, its mad!

I can't believe it, there is nowhere to spend your money!"

Anyone who doesn't think Stafford is a home made dead end disaster needs to get out more....mainly the Council I realise!
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Tumble weed

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Cue said:
Anyone got any reviews?

Also Cravers sure did last long then…
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Cravers lasted years tbh , pretty sure it was around well before lockdown. Think it was called something else originally, but all it did was just change the name to Cravers, the menu was pretty much identical.
 
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