[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

The market could be promoted more. The empty stalls should be let out...at a loss if there are no takers. After all the empty stalls are generating zero revenue....so let them out for nothing. Make the market less like a ghost market, get some footfall. Get the bus companies to have drop off points in the centre of town to bring folk nearer the market.

Ay eck Margaret it's a vicious circle, the market traders are leaving because they don't have the custom they used to have, rents have gone up, the cost of utilities, leckky an the like are out of all proportion, an they have to sell hell a lot more these days before they are puttin butter on their own bread, peoples shopping habits have changed, now instead of going in 1/2 doz shops for next weeks dinners, go in Arsda or Tosco do every thing at once pud id int boot ot car, and home to switch tele on, I might be good at Bury an the like, they have a bigger catchment area than Accy.
Folks round here now like easy shoppin, thurs ony the likes of us owdies who like things as they were, when we've gone nobody ul give a monkeys about stalls in Accy Market, probably be a museum in 10 or so years. But there is one thing, the project on the Accy Pals might just fetch a good few folk into Accy to have a look, and while their at it bob int market an buy sumat.