"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Indy Jess John wrote:
A business vacates a shop and another takes it over. The first thing
they do is take out all the fixtures and fittings and put new ones in,
and some perfectly serviceable stuff gets smashed up and put in a skip
outside.

That cost money. And while it is going on the shop sells nothing and
gets no income, so the shop refitting is done with loans. Small wonder
that some fail. And then somebody else comes along and removed the
previous fixtures and fittings that might be only 6 months old, to put
in new ones.

Why don't they reuse what is there?

There tend to be quite a few 'hobby' businesses round here. Called
something like 'The Lucky Parrot' or whatever and selling the sort of
'novelty items' a department store wouldn't stock. And only last a short
while. But as you say cost a fortune to set up. Same with restaurants.
Far
too many for all to be profitable.

And with pubs and the sort of places that flog women's clothes etc
and women's hair dressers etc.

We're just getting an Aldi and the local newspaper interviewed the
most aggressive of the independent supermarket operators about
that. Hilarious watching him behave like a little kid desperately
whistling to keep his courage up as he walks past the cemetery at night.

He might well survive because he does get significant traffic on foot
from those who can't drive for whatever reason, but it will be interesting
to see how well he does with those who don’t have much further to go
than to the new Aldi. He's never been that cheap compared with the
two major supermarket chains here but the other major independent
hasn’t either so maybe many of the customers aren't that price sensitive.

Aldi has always been rather down market compared with the
majors. You can't even buy chutney there most of the time.

That's what comes of living in a ****-hole.