In article , The Natural
Philosopher scribeth thus
tony sayer wrote:
In article , The Natural
Philosopher scribeth thus
Huge wrote:
On 2008-12-31, Derek Geldard wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:07:12 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Medway Council seem set upon driving business away from the town centre,
How would you know?, you always tell us you never come here;!....


I did go in..needed to see my accountant - and wandered in just before Xmas.

Spent a dreary hour exploring the 'Grand Arcade', before realising that
as far as spending an hour execersing, it was not as enjoyable as
walking the dogs..who unlike the people in the acrcade, are actually
happy. I didnt find anything I wanted to buy, so I retreteated to the
last things worth visiting at all, the booskhops, bought some books and
a DVD (at orse prices than online), had an overpriced coffee and toasted
oddity in one of them, and buggered off home.


Yes dunno why they even built that, its got nothing anybody -needs-!..

True all the same .. local shops going tits up ;(...

Its the main chains that will go tits up.

Shops local tits up perhaps .. and that includes the chains..


Mackays is just about worth visiting. The bookshops also. 'Nomads' still
is a nice shop if you like that sort of thing. Nothing else is worth
bothering with. World of computers gets my trade too, but that's outside
town.

Oh. Another CFL has just popped in here after 6 months.

I think that's going back to normal filament. They last longer.

Anyway, the issue is that market towns exist to serve a catchment area.
Not solely for the benefit of their (non car owning) residents. If you
want to purchase anything that wont fit in a carrier bag, without paying
a small fortune in taxi fares, you need a car to carry it in.

The days when you could drive round the market square, park outside
university audio, and load a pair of Spendors into the back, are long
gone. So is university audio. Seems to be a beauty parlour..

Its the silly double think that on the one hand bemoans the demise of
'useful' shops and on the other insists on making taking a car into the
town within walking distance of the shops an exercise in military style
logistics, that gets me.

If Cambridge wants to commit commercial suicide as a market town, that's
fine. Just don't moan about it while castigating the car user as the
Spawn of Satan.

Nuff said;(...
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Tony Sayer