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Old 22-03-2018, 08:28 AM #51
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So is it going to go back to the corner shop?
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..was that not hoped for../..aimed for with Brexit...the allowance for smaller businesses to survive and thrive...?....
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....I guess if people are shopping online and not so much going to shops...that would be the time they would have something to eat also../...have lunch etc while they shop is what many have tended to do, I think...but not s9 much now..?...

I think that's pretty much it, Ammi. The "high street" is dying, fewer and fewer people going there to shop, therefore reduced footfall for food outlets etc.
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....I guess if people are shopping online and not so much going to shops...that would be the time they would have something to eat also../...have lunch etc while they shop is what many have tended to do, I think...but not s9 much now..?...


...the only one I’ve been to of those is Jamie’s Italian...and I haven’t been for a long time, a few years...but the first time I went, it was a struggle to get a table it was so popular and busy...the last time I was there, it was very quiet...with chain restaurants..well with many restaurants really...there is just so much competition of new ones opening and becoming ‘the current vogue’...and on and on...so they just don’t seem to sustain their popularity with people trying new places which are constantly opening...anyway, sad though...

I think the novelty for celebrity chef restaurants has worn off as well, I went to a Jamie O restaurant once, the food was over priced and not anything special I could have got better in my local italian, the other one who has jumped on the bandwagon lately is James Martin he has an outlet at Stansted airport which sells over priced pre packaged sandwiches, I would rather go to Pret
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Jamie's Italia is going under because charging Ł20 for a burger is unsustainable, no matter whose name it on it.
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Jamie's Italia is going under because charging Ł20 for a burger is unsustainable, no matter whose name it on it.
Exactly, you need repeat custom to keep a business going
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I agree about Jamie Oliver restaurants. A 20 quid burger with JO's hallmark stick through it isn't impressive. I once got something called 'Happy Chicken' at his Portsmouth restaurant and it was raw in the middle
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Moss Bros struggling big time

B&Qs parent company struggling
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Bargain Booze will be next in the coming days
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Toys r us wil close all uk stores in the next 2 weeks
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Default Carpetright to axe 300 jobs and close 92 stores in fight for survival

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Default 2,000 jobs go as Toys R Us UK finally shuts shop

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Default Poundworld to axe up to 100 stores as high street turmoil goes on

https://news.sky.com/story/poundworl...es-on-11347156

I give you the big news

Also some bookie will close when Ł2 bet are bought in for the fixed on betting machine
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https://news.sky.com/story/pensions-...-plan-11368154

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Default Mothercare to close 50 stores in rescue plan

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Default House of Fraser to close 31 stores

House of Fraser to close 31 stores

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Poundworld will be next

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Default Poundworld collapse leaves 5,100 jobs at risk

As I said

https://news.sky.com/story/poundworl...-risk-11401516

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Toy r us

Could be closing soon and new look and Maplin and house of Fraser
I wonder where your mum would shop for you if Toys R Us closed down. Peak.
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There be no shop in the high street in about 10years
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So 25 pound world shops close to day and 80 more by next Sunday

So there be 230 to be sold or closedown
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