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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
If people can get the same or a similar product for less elsewhere, then that is what they will do.......and as for use it or lose it...you can't use something that isn't there. Shopping habits have changed.......people have less money to spend, but yet the shops open 7 days a week...where is the sense in that.
Opening more days costs more money so therefore eats into profits....ah Yes, I hear you say, but if they don't open then people will go online or to the supermarket.......so there is no real answer. Except, we have been to Bury today and the Market was very busy, (this inspite of the fact that it was a miserable grey day with the threat of rain). Why do you think that is?
It might have something to do with the fact that it is a good market with a very diverse range of produce at very competitive prices.
We went through Ramsbottom......a small town. Even that was very busy, with shoppers thronging the main street.
What these towns are doing to bring in trade...surely, could be emulated by Accrington.
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Unfortunately there are those who sit behind the throne who have very little experience, when it comes to the reality of commerce.
Accrington is never going to be a wooly liberal, Free Trade, arty-farty craft haven, because the town doesn't have the demographic to support such a place.
We do have a population that would have supported a thriving market, but those numpties in charge have managed to kill that.
Leaving towns like Bury to benefit, by attracting even more shoppers to their own market.