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Originally Posted by Guinness
Not much the council can do, not even Tesco's fault. Town centres all over the country are rotting, even picturesque market towns like skipton are becoming 'samey', with every other stall being tacky clothes, mass produced preserves or biscuits and sweets.
Go back 20 years to see what those empty shops in Accrington were :-
4 or 5 TV rental/repair shops...no longer needed, cheaper to buy from new than to repair, throwaway society..whatever
Bookshop....replaced by the internet
Toyshop...replaced by the internet
Woolshop..clothes now cheaper to buy than the wool
Typewriter shop... replaced by the computer
Hobby shop...electric train sets/airfix/scalextrix/subuteo....replaced by computer games
2 Tobacconists... no longer needed in a healthy world
3 or 4 Travel Agents...replaced by the internet
2 or 3 Furniture stores
Car accessory shop
Bike shop
etc..etc..etc..
all replaced by cheaper alternatives and the advent of t'internet
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...and most of those things can also bought in supermarkets, which when placed in town centres, have an even more detrimental effect on existing businesses.
The internet hasn't stopped people from shopping in super stores.
The only loser in the end will be the consumer, as there'll be soon be only two or three companies, who'll have a shared monoploy, and will be able to charge what they like, because all the competition will have ceased to exisit, in part due to short-sighted councils, like H.B.C.