Kate, we have a modern design counter; have you been in lately ?
We are also competing with a newer pharmacy just down the road at Asda and coming out on top.
But this isn't just about Boots it's about the whole idea of expanding a shopping centre that is already struggling and has been for years ( please trust me on this; I worked in it for 15 years and just outside it for 3) .
There are stores in our centre who every year aren't sure whether to give up or carry on and suitable incentives are offered to make them stay.
There is one unit in the centre that has been empty for at least 5 years, there are at least 5 that have changed hands many times in the last 5 years.
We have the same row every time new shops are mentioned; folk want River Island, a Next, it ain't gonna happen, Sainsbury's is too upmarket for Accy; it couldn't survive in Burnley !
I'd love a town where a Booth's could thrive and a TJ Hughes could come and make a go of it; sadly it isn't Accy.
