[Misc] Given the boot...

Beach Hut said:

Most products Boots sell are cheaper elsewhere so hardly a surprise

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The Clamp said:

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.

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franks brother said:

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

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The Clamp said:

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.

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Guy Fawkes said:

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

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Guy Fawkes said:

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

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BensGrandad said:

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.

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The Clamp said:

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/

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Blue3 said:

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

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Blue3 said:

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

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Guy Fawkes said:

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

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Guy Fawkes said:

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

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