Southwick's LAST remaining retail premises of interest has gone !

[Uncle Spielberg]

Southwick's LAST remaining retail premises of interest has gone !

The only place of interest in Southwick Square has gone as of today. Tomorrow's World. Gone bust, the way of Blockbusters. The shop in Portslade as well.

Now I can't even hire a new film of choice and I wanted to hire Argo tomorrow. FFS ! Where will this all end ?!

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Armageddon?

 

[skipper734]

At the moment Uncle it's all gone Blinkbox, Netflix etc. I just took a moment to think about the last time I bought anything other than food or medicine from a High Street Shop, must have been some time.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Don't you like Chinese supermarkets?

 

[Titus]

It always was an ugly ill-conceived place. Nothing a bulldozer wouldn't cure.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

How about the one at the Dials?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Should have let another bookies open, insane protestors 'win' and stop a shop opening & attracting more people to the area and then other shops fail like dominoes turning it into a ghost town...clever

 

[vegster]

As I recall there is a rather good Bakers and of course the Chinese supermarket for essentials like Chicken's Feet.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Armageddon?

I've seen that Dave.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I used to use the Boundary Road Tomorrows World almost weekly. Very sad to see it go. Nothing will be left soon except coffee shops and supermarkets.

 

[Beach Hut]

To be fair the reason for failure is more due to technology moving on then anything else as media is so easily available on-line now as opposed to hiring a DVD.

We are having a huge re-organisation at work to move our company forward as the mantra is we don not want to end up like Blockbusters or Jessops.

 

[Brovion]

To be fair the reason for failure is more due to technology moving on then anything else as media is so easily available on-line now as opposed to hiring a DVD.

We are having a huge re-organisation at work to move our company forward as the mantra is we don not want to end up like Blockbusters or Jessops.

That's the nub of it. You don't see many coal merchants or paraffin heater showrooms around now as technology has moved on. Video stores have gone the same way.

 

[Wondergull]

Southwick's LAST remaining retail premises of interest has gone !

The only place of interest in Southwick Square has gone as of today. Tomorrow's World. Gone bust, the way of Blockbusters. The shop in Portslade as well.

Now I can't even hire a new film of choice and I wanted to hire Argo tomorrow. FFS ! Where will this all end ?!

They haven't gone bust just sensibly decided to get out now before they start losing money. As you say, technology has moved on but they were still busy on a Friday/Saturday, it's just the rest of the week which was a problem. The rent charged by the landlords doesn't make it a viable business any more.

 

[Worthingite]

I think the TW in Goring is still open. Looked like that to me when I went past on the bus on friday anyway. But then again, I was watching Netflix on my iPhone so can't be 100%....

 

[T soprano]

This town is coming like a ghost town
All the shops have been closed down
Grannies only shop there now
So many charity shops to choose from
Ahhh ahhhh ahhhhh

 

[Frutos]

Who still rents DVDs?

 

[Socialist Sid]

Don't you like Chinese supermarkets?

Is that groovy gang speak for Chinese media whores?

 

[Stat Brother]

Who still rents DVDs?

Esp when they get really titsy just because you haven't rewound it.
Let it slide and keep the customer.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Who still rents DVDs?

I buy DVDs but only when they are dirt cheap. Got hundreds of them.

 

[T soprano]

Who still rents DVDs?

Well no one now coz blockbusters & tomorrow's world have all gone so I can't no longer have a bit of exercise walking to my local high street to browse through the latest DVD releases have a chat with the staff about what's good & not , then spend a little more cash in the other local shops ( sweets & alcohol ) , so I'll just get fatter & fatter & lazier & lazier like all the other fat lazy bastards sitting at home in their cocoons ordering everything online the zombie apocalypse as already started I'm afraid my friends ( rant far from over )