[Margaret Pilkington]

No I haven't been upstairs for a coffee...and I have to admit that the recent rant by Coffeebeanz has put me off.

I want to be able to go into a market hall that is buzzing with activity.....not a dead space(which is what it feels like to me....perhaps i am on my own here, but I doubt it)....I really do not want to have some sort of entertainment thrust upon me.......especially when it detracts from the reason of the market hall....which is, after all, to sell produce. Bury Market Hall is excellent.... it has a very wide variety of stalls, competitive prices, and NO music......or entertainment/distractions from the prime aim of a visit...which is to shop( and perhaps have a cuppa).
If Bury Market can manage to do the business in five days, then why can't Accrington do the same?

I have said that when the new Tesco opens...which looking at the progress made recently, must be sometime soon, then the Market hall will get even less of a look in.
I feel genuinely sorry for the traders who are going to be forced to work their gonads off to try to make a living.