All the high street staff are coming here!

[Guest DaveW]

Why would anybody want to work in the area where I live, they must be mad? They opened a Subway cob shop and it only lasted a month, so I wonder how long a Costa Coffee shop will last since we already have a couple of restaurants. As soon as one opens up others follow and then there is not enough trade for them all so they all then close leaving none! 

 

We had a small stationers open and then another opened across the road from them meaning there was not enough trade to keep them both going so both of them had to close.  Town centre type businesses do not work in rural areas since they require too high a footfall and turnover to stay in business.

 

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/1-700-chase-just-jobs-new-Costa-Coffee-Mapperley/story-18190765-detail/story.html#axzz2LLSmQZIk

[colinb]

I do understand what you mean Dave, we recently had a WH Smith open up in town and the local bookshop further along the main street gave up and closed within two weeks of it opening. I do think Cost will survive better than lesser more 'local' shops but at least their products are quite good, far beter than Subway.

[annie]

in our high street we have been flooded by betting shops and charity shops taking over empty premises....!

[Guest DaveW]

We have plenty of charity shops too filling the vacant properties, not too many bookies though. Mind you I wonder how some of the shops like small dress shops having limited stocks, a shop that just specialises in chocolate and a picture framers do survive.  I presume some of the more niche ones must trade online and just use the shop as a headquarters since we have a large cycle shop, plus one that just seems to only sell skateboards.  Mapperley is just a dormitory suburb of Nottingham, which is only four miles away, so people can simply go to town for shops with far better ranges of goods and many of the niche shops never seem to have any customers in them, so how they keep going I do not know.

[Leon]

in a few years there will only be take aways and bookies where I live...oh and a Weatherspoons  called the Robert Shaw  (did you know "quint" from jaws was from my home town?)

 

it's a shame, when it was still a village 20 years ago it was full of little independent shops selling allsorts.