[Misc] Given the boot...

[The Clamp]

Boots closing 200 shops. Sad to see these stalwarts of the high street going one by one. Gotta be Smith’s next surely?
Let’s face it once our parents generation die off, these shops are history. Sad.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17749736.sussex-shop-jobs-risk/

 

[Wilko]

The WHSmith on London road feels like a pound shop, I agree they will go soon.

 

[Beach Hut]

Most products Boots sell are cheaper elsewhere so hardly a surprise

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Timothy Whites where are you!

 

[The Clamp]

Most products Boots sell are cheaper elsewhere so hardly a surprise

Indeed.True of all these places. Can’t believe the few HMV stores open still sell dvd’s At £14.99. And they wonder why they have almost been liquidated three times in five years.

 

[franks brother]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48868335
and William hill to close 700 stores as wall

 

[Beach Hut]

Indeed.True of all these places. Can’t believe the few HMV stores open still sell dvd’s At £14.99. And they wonder why they have almost been liquidated three times in five years.

Went in Savers in Worthing and purchased branded tanning oil for £2.99, £10 in Boots. Also medicine distribution has changed quite a bit

 

[Guy Fawkes]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48868335
and William hill to close 700 stores as wall

Not a surprise really as bookmakers were opening more and more branches to get round legislation that limited the number of fixed odds betting machines they could have in a single shop to take advantage of the incomes these machines were generating.

The recent changes in what can be staked was always going to lead to this

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Boots closing 200 shops. Sad to see these stalwarts of the high street going one by one. Gotta be Smith’s next surely?
Let’s face it once our parents generation die off, these shops are history. Sad.

As High Street shoppers get hit by more and more local authority decisions, (Parking charges, traffic schemes designed to make it harder to get anywhere by car, etc) is it any surprise that more and more don't bother traveling to the High Street any more just to browse with the chance they may find something they may want to buy and if they do need something, they just shop online instead

We've not really had anything new and big for a whole to help bring shoppers out and about with a reason to go shopping (new mobile technology, new consoles, etc) whilst a lot of other drivers of this shopping football have drastically reduced or disappeared (DVD and CD sales replaced by streaming services) add in the growth of online shopping and you end up with a situation where, for a lot more people now, there just isn't a reason to travel to shop that there once was

 

[The Clamp]

As High Street shoppers get hit by more and more local authority decisions, (Parking charges, traffic schemes designed to make it harder to get anywhere by car, etc) is it any surprise that more and more don't bother traveling to the High Street any more just to browse with the chance they may find something they may want to buy and if they do need something, they just shop online instead

We've not really had anything new and big for a whole to help bring shoppers out and about with a reason to go shopping (new mobile technology, new consoles, etc) whilst a lot of other drivers of this shopping football have drastically reduced or disappeared (DVD and CD sales replaced by streaming services) add in the growth of online shopping and you end up with a situation where, for a lot more people now, there just isn't a reason to travel to shop that there once was

The only high street shops I see heaving nowadays are Tiger Tiger and women’s clothing shops. And that’s mostly Japanese and Chinese students spending daddy’s money.

 

[BensGrandad]

Is it a surprise as I am sure that Greg Stanley was, if not still is, a major shareholder in both Boots and WH Smith Goods that both sell are accessible and cheaper on line.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Not a surprise really as bookmakers were opening more and more branches to get round legislation that limited the number of fixed odds betting machines they could have in a single shop to take advantage of the incomes these machines were generating.

The recent changes in what can be staked was always going to lead to this

Absolutely this - AND they have known this was going to happen for over a year.

 

[Beach Hut]

Is it a surprise as I am sure that Greg Stanley was, if not still is, a major shareholder in both Boots and WH Smith Goods that both sell are accessible and cheaper on line.

Given Boots is owned by the USA Walgreens chain, I would very much doubt he is a major shareholder now

 

[Blue3]

Boots closing 200 shops. Sad to see these stalwarts of the high street going one by one. Gotta be Smith’s next surely?
Let’s face it once our parents generation die off, these shops are history. Sad.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17749736.sussex-shop-jobs-risk/

Take a look across the channel the death of the high street appears to be only affecting Brexit UK while France Germany Holland all booming

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Take a look across the channel the death of the high street appears to be only affecting Brexit UK while France Germany Holland all booming

Do they charge high prices for parking which discourage shoppers here?
Do they have high levels of basic living cost that we have in the UK (like housing prices were allowed to run unchecked for a long time and allowed to reach unsustainable levels, causing a lot of the problems we now face, or the levels of taxation we have - meaning we have less free cash to spend on things like shopping?)
Nowt to do with Brexit imo

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Take a look across the channel the death of the high street appears to be only affecting Brexit UK while France Germany Holland all booming

Here we go.

 

[Blue3]

Do they charge high prices for parking which discourage shoppers here?
Do they have high levels of basic living cost that we have in the UK (like housing prices were allowed to run unchecked for a long time and allowed to reach unsustainable levels, causing a lot of the problems we now face, or the levels of taxation we have - meaning we have less free cash to spend on things like shopping?)
Nowt to do with Brexit imo

A true but Sadley many voted leave thinking all those things were as a direct result of the EU

 

[clapham_gull]

As High Street shoppers get hit by more and more local authority decisions, (Parking charges, traffic schemes designed to make it harder to get anywhere by car, etc) is it any surprise that more and more don't bother traveling to the High Street any more just to browse with the chance they may find something they may want to buy and if they do need something, they just shop online instead

We've not really had anything new and big for a whole to help bring shoppers out and about with a reason to go shopping (new mobile technology, new consoles, etc) whilst a lot of other drivers of this shopping football have drastically reduced or disappeared (DVD and CD sales replaced by streaming services) add in the growth of online shopping and you end up with a situation where, for a lot more people now, there just isn't a reason to travel to shop that there once was

I just think we are were far more susceptible to the American idea of out of town shopping parks and never saw our old fashioned town centres as cultural assets.

This started years ago in small villages (long before online shopping) and it's only in recent years the bigger town centres have been affected too.

Walmart would routinely open a smaller store in the USA and put all the small shops of business. When their job was done, they would close the store and force everyone to drive miles to the mall. This model in part was imported over here.

There is a delicious irony that the likes of big multinationals like Boots are now suffering. They been actively putting small independent shops out of business for years.





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[Pavilionaire]

Sad news. And last week they pulled the plug on Bathstore

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Boots I never really got why they were so popular. Absolutely everything they sold was available cheaper elsewhere.
Even before internet shopping took off.