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Will street markets survive through 21st century?
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Part of the British way of life has always been having street stalls available for buying groceries, textiles, sweets, veg etc at a slightly lower price with the lower overheads. Is there much of a future for regulated town street markets? The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has commissioned a study to look into the viability and future of having market stalls trading on London's streets
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discount stores like pound shops and low cost supermarkets have zapped some of market traders business
The traders cannot compete with Asda for cheap jeans towels etc.
More choice ...thats a fucking bollox slogan.
Family cafes?
Dissapearing fast ...almost gone in fact but don't worry ...next year most shops will be boarded up.
Mc donnies and othe places like them ...will be closing fast.
So no mc jobs.
Don't believe me?
Then you aint looking at the figures.
Consumption is plumeting ...alcohol ...clothes .cars ...you name it.
Even the mc jobs will not be here next year.
Laugh all you like ...I have the figures.
When these places are boarded up with to let signs on them ...early next year ....think of dumb old me telling you.
The real economic collapse hasn't even started yet!
Is the decline of McDonald's and falling consumption of alcohol a bad thing?
Clothes and cars are not really consumables, clothes can last a long time and so can cars so I'm not sure what point you are making there.
I agree that small businesses are under a lot of pressure in the current economic situation and that many have already been forced to close. I don't there is any denying that this is at least in part down to the supermarkets making full use of their economies of scale and cash reserves to survive the economic crisis at the expense of local businesses. However, I for one will buy goods that are little bit more expensive from local businesses if they are better quality. I won't buy knock off rubbish from a market trader just because they are in my local area, but I will buy quality goods from them.
There was a programme on the BBC recently about how much food is wasted in this country and how it is largely due to people throwing away perfectly edible food that doesn't look exactly right. I think this part of the reason local businesses struggle in this country, people want to buy a bag of bananas from Tesco where each banana looks exactly the same and has the same sticker on it, I think people are afraid of buying goods that don't look a certain way.
I'm same mentality too- if enough people are the same they will stay competitive and survive