so long as your virtual second life high street is alive and well

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:19, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Seriously, I couldn't give the slightest shit if it goes.
My prediction for the future is for increased online purchasing, large warehouses outside of towns for delivery and what used to be the High Street largely residential with pubs and cafes etc.

THe High Street is a relic.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:21, Reply)

This is precisely where we're heading.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:24, Reply)

it's as depressing as fuck as well

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:28, Reply)

No it fucking isn't.
I'll be well happy when there aren't crowds of witless spastics milling about on the street with their screaming, bratty children getting in my way.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:29, Reply)

but why will you be on the street?
a haircut once every few weeks? a generic starbucks coffee? and?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:30, Reply)

And what?
Lower traffic both pedestrian and vehicular, quieter town centres and a pub on the corner. Sounds perfect.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:32, Reply)

no, it sounds dull and horrific
like a ghost town
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:35, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2035264
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:35, Reply)

your world sounds shit and i hope you're wrong and that you die in a chilli-infested ant fire

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:38, Reply)

It depends if it gets
redeveloped in the way that the Frenchie is envisioning. I see what he is getting at in that you will have a more residential high street so they will return to the Victorian style with cafes and "service" shops and no garish chain stores.

This may not be the reality though
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:36, Reply)

what will happen will be that the affluent parts will revitalise
and other places will become ghost towns
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:38, Reply)

I don't care if a bunch of Northerners and povvos spend their time drinking in third rate shit holes.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:40, Reply)

says the man who works in uxbridge

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:41, Reply)

Crucially, I don't live there.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:43, Reply)

Possibly
but it could go either way. I have seen lots of plans that include the residentialiastion (made up word alert) of high streets that look very well thought out, and they are also fairly cheap, so if that's the case it could be made to work. you will then have the drip feed of artisan shops from the affluent areas.... or it could go Detroit
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:41, Reply)

this is britain
have you seen the average twat that lives here?

what part of the average brit makes you think that anything will ever work out well?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:44, Reply)

In a positive frame...
What you are expressing is the lowest common denominator I would suggest that the "average" brit is significantly better than you suggest. Yes there are many mouth breathers but the point of them is they are more visible than the mean. They are the ones cluttering up the high street when you want to do anything so they become the vision of average.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:53, Reply)

Also will put an end to "shopping" as opposed to "buying"
"shopping" being code for "wandering from shoe shop to shoe shop with all the directional sense of a fart in a colander but never actually buying anything. All. Fucking. Day."
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:39, Reply)

And good bloody riddance to it, too.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:40, Reply)

you wait
you'll be the one who is made to box them all back up and post them back and then spend hours pissing around waiting for the online retailers to refund your money when we HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO TRY THEM ON FIRST
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:40, Reply)

It's not our fault women's sizes are retarded.
Ours are done in inches. If you don't know what measurement your waist is, it's your own bloody problem.

Besides, plenty of women I know buy online without sending them back and I've never heard them complain about excessive delays.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:42, Reply)

you wait
by the time you and OG have kids, and you have to buy their clothes online because mothercare went bust ages ago, and you are spending every lunchtime queuing up in whatever replaces the post office to send back little charva's babygros... you'll look back and go, fuck swipe was right
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:45, Reply)

What it comes down to is me arguing legitimate points backed up by observable market trends
and you going "but I don't LIKE it!"
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:46, Reply)

no, i am saying the trends point in a sad and worrying direction
i deal with closures of these shops every day; i see how many people lose jobs and how many landlords lose properties over it. it's a crying shame.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:48, Reply)

It's nothing of the sort.
Adapt or die. That bloody chocolate shop isn't shutting down, it's still operating online. It will continue to do business online even if his other six shops close. It's not a shame, it's progress.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:52, Reply)

Yeah, cos no-one ever buys an imperfectly fitting but exceptionally good looking shoe.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:44, Reply)

that's a different complaint
and an entirely legitimate one.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:45, Reply)

Besides, Next (for example) deliver to your door, and will then collect what doesn't fit.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:50, Reply)

yup

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:25, Reply)