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Originally Posted by susie123
I know I've been away from Accy for a long time, but I thought we are always being told that out of town superstores are a bad thing for town centres and now I hear that a town centre superstore is a bad idea. I always thought that Accy was being shortchanged by only having one of the Big Four supermarkets in town, but now there are two, that is not seen as a good thing. I'm confused.
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Habits have changed.
Many people do like loading up their cars once a week at a supermarket.
However all available information points to the fact that where town centre supermarkets have been granted planning permission, it does have a devastating effect on those small independents, who have somehow managed to stay in business.
Up until that point, at least.
The towns that do still have varied independent retail businesses, generally tend not to have massive town centre supermarkets in those places.