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Originally Posted by g jones
People have been shopping elsewhere for years. When the Trafford Centre opened Accrington lost 11% of it's trade. Town centres everywhere are suffering. We have a national high street crises.
You are not wright either on 'party machine'. We do not target or identify. We knock every area equally and put many hours in to doing so. That's how we know what the majority think.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes...high streets across the country are dying...and the reason is simplicity itself....because the shopping habits of 'we the people' have changed.
The days of struggling through town with a handful of bags in both hands, wet through, frozen to the marrow and struggling to find a seat on a council run bus are as consigned to history as calling in at the local fletcher to buy arrows for mandatory Sunday afternoon practice.
HBC is like King Canute ordering the waves of modern retail and shopping practice to go back to the mid 20th century..ain't gonna happen.