I knew it was time to move when our village got a nail bar and a tattoo parlour.
It was Essex, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.
Ours is now all ‘Turkish’ barbers, vape shops, charity shops, nail bars and tattooists. Everything else died when the banks closed. The fact that you could never park didn’t help. Even the local ‘Spoons is quiet. The butchers and veg shop gave up a year ago. There is however a hardware store, the type that insists on putting everything outside on the pavement, and stocks only the cheapest quality shite it can.
Would making free parking get people to come back or is the high street finally dead?
Been living abroad for 12 years. Back for a visit.
My high road used to have three banks and two building societies… Now it has a single ATM.
Of the six pubs that were there, two remain.
We have multiple barbers, nail bars and charity shops. All the restaurants have changed multiple times.
Also noticed to trendy looking bars that you can’t see into from outside, that no one every goes into.
The one exception to the above is the greasy spoon. Same place, same owners, same great grub.
Honourable mention to the Indian (take away only) that has been there at least 20 years.
BBC is reporting this like it’s some kind of good news, and not just further examples of shittifiction and money laundering.
Mini European supermarkets/convenience stories are everywhere in towns now. God knows how they make enough money, some streets have like 4+ more or less next door to each other.
Why does it matter? They’re all involved in money laundering at the end of the day.
Experiences replacing services, that’s the future of the high street.
Well yeah, you can shop and bank online, but you can’t get cosmetic treatment done virtually
Actually amazed that they failed to mention bookmakers/betting shops even once in an article entirely about the composition of the High Street.
Surely that’s deliberate?
It is inevitable that the high street, as we know it, is disappearing. Town planners would do well acknowledge that fact and factor it into their plans.
Personally speaking, I can count on one hand the number of items I have bought from any high street over the past five years.
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I knew it was time to move when our village got a nail bar and a tattoo parlour.
It was Essex, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.
Ours is now all ‘Turkish’ barbers, vape shops, charity shops, nail bars and tattooists. Everything else died when the banks closed. The fact that you could never park didn’t help. Even the local ‘Spoons is quiet. The butchers and veg shop gave up a year ago. There is however a hardware store, the type that insists on putting everything outside on the pavement, and stocks only the cheapest quality shite it can.
Would making free parking get people to come back or is the high street finally dead?
Been living abroad for 12 years. Back for a visit.
My high road used to have three banks and two building societies… Now it has a single ATM.
Of the six pubs that were there, two remain.
We have multiple barbers, nail bars and charity shops. All the restaurants have changed multiple times.
Also noticed to trendy looking bars that you can’t see into from outside, that no one every goes into.
The one exception to the above is the greasy spoon. Same place, same owners, same great grub.
Honourable mention to the Indian (take away only) that has been there at least 20 years.
BBC is reporting this like it’s some kind of good news, and not just further examples of shittifiction and money laundering.
Mini European supermarkets/convenience stories are everywhere in towns now. God knows how they make enough money, some streets have like 4+ more or less next door to each other.
Why does it matter? They’re all involved in money laundering at the end of the day.
Experiences replacing services, that’s the future of the high street.
Well yeah, you can shop and bank online, but you can’t get cosmetic treatment done virtually
Actually amazed that they failed to mention bookmakers/betting shops even once in an article entirely about the composition of the High Street.
Surely that’s deliberate?
It is inevitable that the high street, as we know it, is disappearing. Town planners would do well acknowledge that fact and factor it into their plans.
Personally speaking, I can count on one hand the number of items I have bought from any high street over the past five years.