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Our dying high streets in the UK; the internet |
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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Our dying high streets in the UK; the internet
With every major music retailer going down in the last few years, does anyone have a local high street which still has a music specialist retailer than does good trade?
On a non-music note, my local Millets closed down this week end to make room for a SIXTH charity shop on the same stretch of road. I don't think anything is done to attract people to my local towns; people are being forced on shop on the internet through lack of choice in town. What can be done to rectify this before it is too late? |
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We lost our local CD/film shop last year. It seemed to be busy and many local people supported it by buying there instead of shopping online. But the rent was apparently unsustainable for a music retailer so they had to close. I've now switched to buying online from "bricks and mortar" shops like Sister Ray and Piccadilly Records in the hope that they will stay open, even if it's not economic for me to shop there in person, but I'd still rather have a local shop to browse in.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
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My nearest "big" town still has two independent record shops.
The real problem is out towns and cities is the rise of the chain store, to the detriment of the local store, leading to "identikit" shopping centres up and down the country. This means there is no real difference between shopping in one town or the next and if one chain fails it affects hundreds of towns. |
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