That's really depressing

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:07, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

it's true though
places like wilmslow will be full of supermarkets, restaurants and beauty salons. i was on the high street there with my friend and she needed a cable for her dvd player - there was literally nowhere left to go to buy it. places that are less affluent will end up with desolate high streets. it doesn't take much effort for people to support local shops as well as shopping online ffs.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:09, Reply)

Shop owners don't have a right to be supported just because they aren't a supermarket.
I don't support local shops unless they sell something I want. Otherwise fuck 'em
( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:14, Reply)

i think that's all they are asking for
people who do want what they sell to use them. it's not really just about local shops, it's about all retailers. will you be patting yourself on the back for saving a tenner on your holiday when thompson goes bust and thousands more people are shoved onto the dole and your pension makes no money because the fund isn't receiving rents from its property portfolio?

it's just about making a bit of effort to spread custom, not to change your lifestyle completely.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:21, Reply)

I'll buy from a local shop if they can match online prices.
If they can't, well fine. I don't owe anybody a living except me.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:24, Reply)

no you won't
you're dyed in the wool online. fine, but this country will be a damn sight poorer when the retailers are all online, employing far fewer people, and you can't just pop out to browse for books or nice stuff for your flat any more.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:33, Reply)

Basically your entire argument is "I like it better the way it is, I don't want it to change waaah"
But, as you've admitted yourself, you don't shop on the high street anymore than anybody else does.

At least I'm being fucking honest.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:35, Reply)

where did i admit that?
i said i try really hard to split my business - eg books. i buy about 30% from second hand or independent retailers, about 30% on amazon, and about 40% in waterstones
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:36, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2035209

You use supermarkets and online as much as anybody else. Plenty of people shop on the High Street and they STILL can't compete. It's like HMV and the giant panda. If you can't adapt, you die.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:39, Reply)

omg it's like you're deliberately not listening
if everybody just split their shopping a bit, it would be fine.

there is no need not to use supermarkets. and no need not to use online. just use a bit of everything.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:43, Reply)

Why should I split my shopping?
I don't owe these people
( Peej, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 15:36, Reply)

Convert the abandoned high street shops into social housing
kill two birds with one stone.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:28, Reply)

and where will they work?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:31, Reply)

from home
earning big money for stuffing envelopes and phoning vulnerable pensioners as "Windows Support".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:47, Reply)