100 Stores Closing Per Week

JONJO THE MISER

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Marcus.Aurelius

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Suggestions?

Carl Sagan

I will when they stop overcharging.

Random

fao: local business

stop charging so much and you'll make some money. charge loads and you'll make nonse.

aaronjumper

Because we are all rich enough?

biko

100 Stores Closing Per Week

Link?

Krieg

Spend? spend what?

OPENROAD

biko wrote: »

Link?

was on Nine O'clock news

foxinsox

People may not be spending because maybe they don't have money..

Just a thought..

Son Of A Vidic

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Give me value for money and I will spend. It's amazing the amount of rip off pricing that's still going on. Some greedy bast@rds would rather go bust, than give us a fair deal.

Kimono-Girl

to be fair down here in cork i've noticed those awful "€2" / "everything must go" shops are closing

you know the ones, the ones with knock off watches on one table and bleach on the next....and dvds on the next table.

JustAddWater

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Most ironic thread of 2011

starbelgrade

:eek:

Better get some booze in and fast.

Dwaegon

Some people pretty much have to shop at larger chains!
For me, a student on a budget, Tesco brand is cheaper than brand names, enables me to have enough food, so I buy most of my food in Tesco!
If I went to local shops, i'd (in my opinion) get ripped off.

It's sad, and I wish I could support the local shops, but in the same way they don't have the means to lower prices, I don't have the money to shop there!

Namlub

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

to be fair down here in cork i've noticed those awful "€2" / "everything must go" shops are closing

you know the ones, the ones with knock off watches on one table and bleach on the next....and dvds on the next table.

At least the Wacky Hat Shop is still there, where would I buy all my wacky hats otherwise??

Lumen

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

No.

phasers

Nothing near me has closed down, in fact we've had a fair few shops opening as of late.

Run_to_da_hills

We need to save as much cash as possible these days.

Its far cheaper to buy on line, less Vat also.

RonMexico

People need to get it into their head that the higher prices at the local store is not necessarily down to the owner being out to screw people - they forget that the owner has to pay massive insurance, exorbitant rates, wages, electricity bills etc. Much of the produce you see in the likes of Tesco is below cost and sometimes even cheaper than the likes of the cash&carry that supplies the local shop.

Some stores do have ridiculous prices, but not all are down to the owner being greedy. If all of these business owners were screwing people for a tidy profit they'd hardly let their stores go to the wall.

Unfortunately things are only going to get worse this year and by the time this depression is over there will be very few local businesses left.

th3 s1aught3r

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Spend what ?
Latest paycheck was a shocker with all the new taxes

Terry

I prefer to shop up North and contribute to the failing UK economy.

enviro

Lower prices for the win.

veryangryman

OPENROAD wrote: »

was on Nine O'clock news

Id sooner have a link than believe their argle bargle/flimflam

GTE

So there are 100 stores a week leaving the market because they oversupplied it and/or cant cut it against the competition?

Why not prop them up like we did the car retail market? :rolleyes:

No sympathy.

smk89

phasers wrote: »

Nothing near me has closed down, in fact we've had a fair few shops opening as of late.

Same with me, only most of them are coffee shops.

Timmaay

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

to be fair down here in cork i've noticed those awful "€2" / "everything must go" shops are closing

you know the ones, the ones with knock off watches on one table and bleach on the next....and dvds on the next table.

Yeh, hmm and up north they are one POUND shops!! Selling mostly the same stuff!!

stephendevlin

Less disposable income = Less of a demand

Probably a lot of shops tied to the building trade

Ali Babba

RonMexico wrote: »

People need to get it into their head that the higher prices at the local store is not necessarily down to the owner being out to screw people - they forget that the owner has to pay massive insurance, exorbitant rates, wages, electricity bills etc. Much of the produce you see in the likes of Tesco is below cost and sometimes even cheaper than the likes of the cash&carry that supplies the local shop.

Some stores do have ridiculous prices, but not all are down to the owner being greedy. If all of these business owners were screwing people for a tidy profit they'd hardly let their stores go to the wall.

Unfortunately things are only going to get worse this year and by the time this depression is over there will be very few local businesses left.

And also less businesses mean less jobs for everyone, we haven't been the worst of this recession by a long shot. Property prices are still in free fall too yet this greedy government are still screwing everyone for more taxes instead of trying to stimulate the market they've restricted it which is a huge mistake with far reaching very bad implications for all of us. But then when you consider that Fianna Failure can't even run their own party what hope have they of running this country. 3-5 years and we'll be as poor as the poorer eastern block countries but this government will have fled with huge pensions and golden handshakes, shocking stuff really.

x in the city

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Ireland will be like down town atlanta soon.


the walking dead atlanta

ejmaztec

I feel sorry for the shop-lifters, it's hard to steal stuff from the one shop every day, unless you've already robbed a novelty shop that sells disguise kits.

gosuckonalemon

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

:eek: Come on people go out and spend and support your local business's.

Think I might wait for the liquidation sales!