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Originally Posted by garinda
It might encourage free trade for local shops if HBC don't grant planning permission to greatly expand the retail park at Whitebirk.
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All shops no matter what they sell are dependant on just one thing - the number of people walking past the front door. If there are sufficient numbers then no matter what the shop sells there will be enough people to enable the shop to make a profit. If there are only a few people walking past a shop it will not make a profit.
By encouraging Whitebirk you could cause (create) a situation where a significant number (which could be very small) of shoppers will not go into Accrington centre. They will therefore not be walking past the various shops in the centre, those shops will not make a profit, the shops will close and gradually the centre of Accrington will die.