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The main reason that Accrington Markets failed was because ASDA moved in and decided to begin to sell everything. The council's response to falling Market revenue was, not to ask why and then do something about it, but to allow ASDA to build an even bigger store so they could sell more things and put even more local shopkeepers out of business, and also to start to put market rents up to cover the shortfall. Thus the higher the rent became, there were fewer stall holders who could afford to pay it and the bigger ASDA became fewer people did their shopping on the Market. You can't really blame the shoppers, ASDA has made it so easy for them. The only people to blame, as usual, are the myopic halfwits we elect to represent us who would not recognise public consultation if it turned up with bells ringing and sirens sounding.