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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Not going to let that word drop, are you?
It's nothing to do with thinking that the socio-economic demographic rates highly, more that a shopping district with decent amenities will do better than one which has been allowed to run down. Take Preston as an example - Friargate had gone into quite a decline but a collaboration of public and private sector investment totally turned it around within a year.
All town centres need occasional regeneration schemes and Accrington is clearly no different. I'm not suggesting that shoppers are better off than they make out, but I go to Blackburn town centre far more because of the better range of shops. I suspect many other shoppers do exactly the same - people go where they can get what they want.
Accrington has a brilliant setup and I would never knock it but the more empty units you have, the more people will start looking at it as being a bit tatty.
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I mentioned it only because I've never seen anyone in the area I'd personally describe as a 'Yuppie'.
A name devised in the eighties to describe the newly professional, with excessive salaries, and therefore large disposable incomes. As examplified by the characters in the films Wall Street, and American Psycho.
If you think that large retail consortiums don't look at all available demographic information, when planning where to site their businesses, you're wrong. I know that as fact, having worked in the industry.
The fact is that the vast majority of people in this area don't have large disposable incomes, to spend on luxuries such as high end fashion, coffee shops etc, but we do have an adequate supply of pound and charity shops.