Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,939
Odd. There seemed to be quite a few sitting outside the Eight Bells this afternoon.
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-09-09/dogs-banned-from-all-wetherspoons-pubs/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
bob, where they the four legged ones or the two legged ones.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
Still waiting an update on the demonstration by a few locals a few months ago,.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,741
The old Nifties shop although empty might look a little better if it was cleared out.The old out of date and faded tins doesnt make much of a window display.
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/new-life-for-empty-shells-189701/
I don't think that £10,00 will go very far between three towns. Scroll to the end, I think they have mistakenly put the reporters notes on the page
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,939
For God's sake when will people realise we have seen the end of 'retail' in the High Street.
PLEASE tell me why the Hell I should bother coming shopping in Dover High Street to be told by some spotty semi-articulate youth that they haven't got the model/my size/the colour I want in stock when Amazon will deliver it to my door at a time convenient to me for free at a cheaper price.
Even Waitrose/John Lewis are having problems
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45506322
If the likes of them can't hack it do you really think some budding entrepreneur (dread word!) is going to have a chance, even in a heavily subsidised space in the former Co-op?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I think that small niche businesses can still survive in town centres but the days of large department stores is coming to an end. Even Fenwick's is having problems although any shortfall in the Canterbury one may be down to losing the direct bus link to and from River.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Yes a few of us are not able to get to Fenwicks these days .Imgoing on Saturday by car .I thought the idea was to dicourage car usage .Latest idea from KCC a select committeee to deal with isolation and loneliness.Give us back a decent bus service.I know a lot of elderly people who no longer get out and about because it takes so long to get from A to B
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
I'm with you all the way on bus services, Sue. May I politely respect that the best way of achieving our mutual wishes would be for BOTH of us to vote for any party that doesn't put privatisation on an unassailable pedestal regardless of social value?
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
You maybe right there Ray
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
capt.H, I wouldn't buy anything of amazon,they are a non taxpaying employers,who employ slave labour on zero hours.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
as a aside I rather talk to a spotty over weight teenager than go through a faceless debuncle.its these internet shops that's killing the high street.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,939
I'm sure that the excellent Jeff Bezos will be trembling in his boots while he reassesses his business model Brian. Perhaps you'd prefer Alibaba's version with two hour delivery?
https://www.cultofmac.com/430097/in-china-taobao-is-like-amazon-but-bigger-and-faster/
Like it or not Brian this is the future. As the great Ken Kesey used to say 'You're either on the bus or you're off the bus'. Time to decide. The destination board still reads 'Further'!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
still not convinced me capt,H
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The people that I know who have used Amazon complain of having to wait in and sometimes find their parcel has been left at someone else's address by the courier too many times. The problems stem from continual staff turnover at companies like Yodel.
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
Amazon is by no means perfect but as the Captain says, it's the future so better get used to it. There is still room for the high street but it'll look a whole lot different to what it does now. It's just natural progress.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
Paul M wrote:It's just natural progress.
All depends on what you mean by 'progress'. Oh, and by 'natural'. Losing our tails was natural, but I wouldn't say it was progress: a lot of people can no longer climb trees, or stay upright.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Weird Granny Slater wrote:All depends on what you mean by 'progress'. Oh, and by 'natural'. Losing our tails was natural, but I wouldn't say it was progress: a lot of people can no longer climb trees, or stay upright.
I always suspected there was a tailless one in our midst and eventually they would give themselves away.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
I yearn to be more prehensile than I currently am.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
I have never had a problem with Amazon deliveries but then we always say where to leave any parcel if out.
I can never understand why those who are unlikely to be in during the day do not arrange for their parcel to be left at one of the local collection points like Asda and I think Argos and Morrisons.
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