Market Hall Refurbishment - Page 57

Ken Moss · 11-12-2010, 01:15

I've had the costings through for confirmed entertainment acts over the next six months but it seems that they're only booked up to 18th December. Everything remaining is scheduled on Saturdays, a far more sensible move and one I applaud rather than the lunacy of trying to pull people in on Wednesdays. The highest fee is £275 for a saxophonist and a keyboard player but many of the acts are performing for free, including the Accrington Pipe Band.

I'm still against the idea of enforced six day trading but at least the entertainments bill has come down to a more reasonable level and actually involves local talent instead of paying people to promote their own businesses.

jaysay · 11-12-2010, 09:05

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I've had the costings through for confirmed entertainment acts over the next six months but it seems that they're only booked up to 18th December. Everything remaining is scheduled on Saturdays, a far more sensible move and one I applaud rather than the lunacy of trying to pull people in on Wednesdays. The highest fee is £275 for a saxophonist and a keyboard player but many of the acts are performing for free, including the Accrington Pipe Band.

I'm still against the idea of enforced six day trading but at least the entertainments bill has come down to a more reasonable level and actually involves local talent instead of paying people to promote their own businesses.

I have always agreed with you on 6 day trading, as I once worked for a firm who had enforced overtime, ain't good, mind you I worked 7 days a week most of my working life but it was my choice and nobody else's

Mick · 14-12-2010, 07:20

I see we are starting to pay for this market refurbishment ....2 weeks ago i got a pound of beef sausages from a stall in the market hall they cost £1:74 on my way back from physiotherapy at the Pals medical center yesterday i went to the same stall to get some more they had gone up to £2:15 a pound i asked why the increase and was told they have put the rents up

Neil · 14-12-2010, 07:40

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Originally Posted by mick

i asked why the increase and was told they have put the rents up

Its probably true but always a good excuse. A bit like when the government increase tax on petrol and the petrol station slip an extra 0.5p on the price at the same time

That increase you said is a 24% increase. Have the rents gone up that much?

gynn · 14-12-2010, 08:16

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Originally Posted by mick

I see we are starting to pay for this market refurbishment ....2 weeks ago i got a pound of beef sausages from a stall in the market hall they cost £1:74 on my way back from physiotherapy at the Pals medical center yesterday i went to the same stall to get some more they had gone up to £2:15 a pound i asked why the increase and was told they have put the rents up

If it IS to pay for the increased rents, then it pre-supposes that there is no net increase in business in the Market Hall, despite the refurbishment and extra opening hours.

At the end of the day, its a case of supply and demand. Are the sausages cheaper in ASDA or Tesco?

Neil · 14-12-2010, 08:20

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Originally Posted by gynn

At the end of the day, its a case of supply and demand. Are the sausages cheaper in ASDA or Tesco?

More to it than that, do the sausages taste better from the market may be more important to some people than the price

Mick · 14-12-2010, 08:32

True Neil these sausages are very tasty and really are good so are there garlic but Anne does not allow me to get them.
i have always got them from this stall i do not use supermarkets at all i prefer to support local trade
and i hate prepacked stuff fresh is much better same with cheese the prepacked stuff is like soap i like it when i ask for 1/2 lb cheese and they cut it off the whole cheese.

The only time you will see me in a supermarket is if i cant find the herbs and spices i need and that is after going to Blackburn market where there is a stall that only sells herbs and spices or i grow my own.
i have to be really desperate to go in one of those places

Gremlin · 14-12-2010, 08:50

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Originally Posted by Neil

Its probably true but always a good excuse. A bit like when the government increase tax on petrol and the petrol station slip an extra 0.5p on the price at the same time

That increase you said is a 24% increase. Have the rents gone up that much?

As a comparison I remember when as a tanker driver we had to strike over the petrol companies lack of interest in a wage rise.
We finally got £8 a week which equated to about £12 with bonus.
A driver did two loads a day 4 days a week and delivered about 40,000 gallons a week; petrol went up 9p a gallon and they blamed the drivers.

Work it out, 40,000 times 9p is a lot more than £12 a week we got. I wouldn't have minded if they had made it 10p a gallon extra and given us the extra penny for each gallon we delivered.

Same in any business, pass your increase in costs onto the customer but add a bit extra for yourself.

I went through the market last week, first time in ages and it seemed reasonable busy, quite a lot of people sat in the cafe area and some guy making a noise on a keyboard instrument.

heth · 14-12-2010, 18:33

Just a question........... should they not put a notice up saying that they have increased there prices?

lancsdave · 14-12-2010, 18:35

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Originally Posted by heth

Just a question........... should they not put a notice up saying that they have increased there prices?

Do Asda or Tesco do it ? They only tell you when prices are reduced

heth · 14-12-2010, 18:39

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Do Asda or Tesco do it ? They only tell you when prices are reduced

Yeah I agree, its just on the market when you order your sausages, they pack them for you and hand them to you...................then they say a price that is quite a bit higher than the last time you have bought them. Many people are too polite to say something.

At ASDA or Tesco you see the price before they have gone through the till.

jaysay · 14-12-2010, 18:49

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Originally Posted by heth

Yeah I agree, its just on the market when you order your sausages, they pack them for you and hand them to you...................then they say a price that is quite a bit higher than the last time you have bought them. Many people are too polite to say something.

At ASDA or Tesco you see the price before they have gone through the till.

That last time I remember going for meat in the Market they always displayed the price per pound on things like sausages heth

heth · 14-12-2010, 18:57

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Originally Posted by jaysay

That last time I remember going for meat in the Market they always displayed the price per pound on things like sausages heth

Aye true, Mick were there any prices?

flashy · 14-12-2010, 19:06

i bought 6 Cumberland sausage from the market hall today and i paid £1.40 for them, been getting these sausages for ages now and she always says the price first when she weighs them and asks me if thats ok

Mick · 15-12-2010, 04:49

Yes they where priced but i did not notice till she told me the price and i looked at the card.