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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well Less if I had a shop I'd lock it up at night and clear the pavement of snow as a matter habit, looking back to the times when we didn't live in a nanny state, were everybody thinks responsibility is somebody else's, people used to clear the snow of footpaths and certainly shop keepers did, now we expect the council to do everything

I don't think the two things are comparable, obviously it is the shopkeepers responsibility to ensure his goods are secured on leaving the premises, however it has never been the shopkeepers responsibility to clear the snow away, just as it isn't his responsibility to repair cracked flagstones.
When considering how high business rates are, I for one do expect the Council to clear the front of his premises.