Britains High Street

It all seemed to start with Comet, closely followed by Jessops and HMV. Today it was announced that BlockBuster has gone into Administration. There will not be a high street left for us all soon.

we went to ormskirk today to do a bit of shoplifting,there is loads of empty shops.but about 8 charity shops,3/4 bookmakers.loads of jewellers{all empty}and cheap crap shops.

if the greedy councils and the greedier landlords dont drop the charges,the high st will be history.

you have to park and pay,and god help you if them traffic wardens get a sniff that you could be a little late...booom.

you cant charge tip top rates and then charge tip top parking charges.not in this present economy,something has to give.

rant over

ps the shoplifting was aborted when i seen all those cameras.

but we did buy a wanda beetween us.

there is a new high street out there all ready with carpets for roads and three peace suite for public seating .its call the internet the down fall of shoping as we no it

Tugga wrote:

It all seemed to start with Comet, closely followed by Jessops and HMV. Today it was announced that BlockBuster has gone into Administration. There will not be a high street left for us all soon.

maybe they will make aires out of the empty car parks:D

Come and do your shopping in Accrington, full of shops here
£ shops, charity shops, bookies, phone shops, junk food ie Greggs etc
Not much more though

do i need my passport.

Our local town is full of hairdressers, clothes shops & coffee shops.

tessajoe wrote:

do i need my passport.

NO, but most scousers that come to Accrington usually wear red and white and play for Stanley, how are you in the nets, we need a keeper [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I'm surprised Blockbuster lasted as long as they did. I mean,' They just didn't have a clue WHAT to do '........

OK, I'll get my coat

tessajoe wrote:

Tugga wrote:

It all seemed to start with Comet, closely followed by Jessops and HMV. Today it was announced that BlockBuster has gone into Administration. There will not be a high street left for us all soon.

maybe they will make aires out of the empty car parks:D

Even if they did they would charge a fortune to stay the night!

tessajoe wrote:

maybe they will make aires out of the empty car parks

Dont mind stopping at an aire in a pleasant french town, but dont fancy stopping the night in a lot of town carparks in this country with all the drunks and scroats

bets on supper drug will be next

Problem that I forsee is that councils will end up with less income due to empty shops which could result in council tax rises for householders or cuts in services - neither of which is good!

vat man wrote:

bets on super drug will be next

I predict Mothercare being next Mick.

Any other predictions?

Mothercare shoud be ok the have health online business now

Hi,

It really is getting worrying, just think of the amount of people employed in those high street shops that will be out of work with very little prospects of finding anything else.

Perhaps there needs to be a change in attitude of the British public as while I do an awful lot of on-line shopping, I cannot bury my head in the sand and say it has nothing to do with me if we start to find rising unemployment.

It would seem that to stay alive in the high street ARGOS have perhaps the best model, they even have a TV shopping channel.