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CS: The Kabin vs Corner Shop
Can someone remind me how these two survive?
Isn't everything the Kabin sells just in the corner shop? |
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Can someone remind me how these two survive?
Isn't everything the Kabin sells just in the corner shop?
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I'd say the Corner Shop has the most trouble
Gone are the days when Hilda Ogden went next door for a bottle of brown sauce. I expect the supermarket has outpriced them. |
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They only ever seem to have 1 customer at a time as well, Someone may walk in they exchange a few words then leave
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The Kabin baffles me mainly because it hasn't diversified into being more like the corner shop.
There is a small newsagent near me that always used to be a newsagent and nothing else (papers, magazines, cards, sweets, fags, lottery) but in the past 15 years or so it has started selling basic groceries as well as turning over a large part of the shop to alcohol. For me, the Kabin is the one that would have closed down by now but, as my username suggests, I think it's an important set for Corrie. At least Dev's sells essentials that the residents of Coronation Street might believably need. |
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They only ever seem to have 1 customer at a time as well, Someone may walk in they exchange a few words then leave
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I keep hoping that one day they merge these two businesses. The Kabin was fine when it was in Rosamund Street as it was an indeterminate distance away from Coronation Street. It was pushing it when we had Alf in the shop and Rita and Mavis in the Kabin across the street but they still felt like very distinct environments such was the strength of those characters and the writing. However they have long since become backdrops that could be selling anything and the scenes would play out just the same. We don't need them both. Plus, Dev going into business with Norris could be fun.
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Also with Tracy turning her what was a pawn shop/cash generators style shop into a florists this or more or less makes the cheap limp flowers that Dev's sells from his corner shop obsolete. However with Tracy being such a spiteful snidey bitch I don't see who would be willing to give her any custom anyway.
The Kabin did used to run a post office from there a few years ago which made it more unique to the corner shop but for some reason they got rid of that. |
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The Kabin did used to run a post office from there a few years ago which made it more unique to the corner shop but for some reason they got rid of that. |
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I get a bit angry during the increasingly rare corner shop scenes - the layout is so awful!!! As an ex-corner shop employee, the way things are chucked on the shelves, labels hidden, things hung all over the place....Dev had 8 shops - he would know better. It looked it's best and most believable during Alf's Mini-Mart days.
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I get a bit angry during the increasingly rare corner shop scenes - the layout is so awful!!! As an ex-corner shop employee, the way things are chucked on the shelves, labels hidden, things hung all over the place....Dev had 8 shops - he would know better. It looked it's best and most believable during Alf's Mini-Mart days.
![]() ![]() ![]() The shop didn't look so bad before Maya set fire to it in 2004 but since then it's been atrocious. |
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True. The only exception is with alcohol. As you'd expect The Kabin doesn't sell it as Rita empties the bottles down her gullet within the first 10 minutes of their delivery.
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The drunken heartless son of a bee never even shed a tear when the young paperboy took the six foot drop. I'll never forgive her for that, I hope Dev shuts her down with a low price war.
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I dont remember this era, but that makes so much sense! That would certainly give residents more reason to go to there and interact with the shopkeepers or each other...to mail things or pick up parcels etc.
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The corner shop has a brim full of asher
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The Kabin baffles me mainly because it hasn't diversified into being more like the corner shop.
There is a small newsagent near me that always used to be a newsagent and nothing else (papers, magazines, cards, sweets, fags, lottery) but in the past 15 years or so it has started selling basic groceries as well as turning over a large part of the shop to alcohol. For me, the Kabin is the one that would have closed down by now but, as my username suggests, I think it's an important set for Corrie. At least Dev's sells essentials that the residents of Coronation Street might believably need. I think after those characters are no longer around, it probably would be time to close down and move on. |
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I keep hoping that one day they merge these two businesses. The Kabin was fine when it was in Rosamund Street as it was an indeterminate distance away from Coronation Street. It was pushing it when we had Alf in the shop and Rita and Mavis in the Kabin across the street but they still felt like very distinct environments such was the strength of those characters and the writing. However they have long since become backdrops that could be selling anything and the scenes would play out just the same. We don't need them both. Plus, Dev going into business with Norris could be fun.
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We've discussed this many times over the years, haven't we?
![]() ![]() ![]() The shop didn't look so bad before Maya set fire to it in 2004 but since then it's been atrocious. Were you driving that tram KK?
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Were you driving that tram KK?