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  Roger I think in times of recession its a well known fact isnt it that advertising and promotional things are the first to go south. It would be very hard to keep a system like that going( The Loyalty Card Scheme) in these hard times as the shops businesses are struggling to survive and all external expenditure gets slashed. And with the Loyalty Card businesses may have felt they were paying twice. Once through the annual fee and then on top of that through discounts.
  
  This is particularly the case in somewhere with poor shops like Dover, much better chance to make a go of these things in thriving towns like say Cheltenham or somewhere similar. The irony is that Dover needs it more. This is not any kind of criticism though Roger as I always admired the brave effort you made on behalf of the town.
  
  Sadly or maybe not so sadly, a town needs the major stores. People see stuff advertised on TV and they want to buy it..its that simple. If they dont get it here they will go eleswhere. Advertising is a very very powerful drug.
  
  Brian hits the nail on the head with his telling posting above ( no 7).
  "Tesco used to be a small store beside St Marys Church and the Market Sq" says it all really.

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