Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Saw the Market Square renovations yesterday- sales of spray paint for graffiti will go through the roof - all that white stone will prove irresistible to our local “artists “. Who comes up with these lunatic ideas? Clearly people who don’t look around them!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Arthur agree.Seats are terrible design.I rarely go into town .Sad but those who make these decision will never learn.When we had that lovely floral display in the Market Square with shops of interest .
The worst thing was Marks moving .Bus stops moved.So I prefer to wander along River and when I’m home enjoy my garden .
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,816
Keith Sansum1 wrote:Quite a shame Rooks going , but I never understood the Dover shop moving from town centre to market Square .
I didnt think it was a wise move either but i had heard the lease was coming to an end on the old shop.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,869
I wonder if the following comment from Brian's first link has a valid point, as an example did Rooks adapt and do home delivery like so many other businesses did?........
Not impressed wrote:
15/03/2022 11:38
Other similar businesses thrived because of covid. More people were eating at home and needed good suppliers of quality food. Many businesses started up good delivered and websites and found a whole new market.
Whilst covid clearly didn't help and the lack of support for business from Johnson - too busy handing out billions to mates exploiting covid that money could have helped business less savvy in seeing new opportunities covid presented.
To just blame covid is as stupid to just blame brexit.
I suspect business was not booming before covid and they simply did not have an agile enough management to make the changes needed.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
You are quite correct Jan quite a number of businesses changed how they worked to try to survive covid .
Also Rotherwoods survived and appear still to be popular
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,056
Captain Haddock wrote:
The one that really surprises me still trading is town centre W H Smiths?
Tonbridge - Population 41,617
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/tonbridge-whsmith-store-close-meaning-6831343"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I always wondered how the Dover Smith's has survived so long
It's always empty
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jeff Vane owed £3.5K. Painful for a wonderful local business like that. You really do have to question they way Rooks has been managed based upon that report.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Rooks family dominated by which party ?
Oh no don't mention that lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Nasty Keith.?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Is it not correct Sue ?
It's not a hidden secret as far as I know
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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LIDL Whitfield. Today we have been mostly shoplifting binoculars!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Oh dear. Sources say there's been a 50% over-run on Market Square 'redevelopment' costs.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 782- Registered: 4 Oct 2012
- Posts: 357
Oh no! That’s shocking, how could that have been allowed to happen?
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Agree Simon.Surely who ever agreed this project should have been keeping a watchful eye on this .I recall the Deal Pier some years ago and I challenged not always popular but all Councillors should keep an eye on projects .Anyone could see that the Market Square refurbishment was well behind time .Makes me want to weep.Over budget projects what that money could have been used for?.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"