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TOPIC: Every year we get it .....
#108088
In The Know

Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
.... "busiest shopping day ever" .... "millions out for a bargain" .... "record breaking sales" .... etc etc

Then the truth -

Debenhams sales slump !

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25559780
 
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#108135
andrew

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
BHS are closing down also. High street is a dead duck, soon there only be Cash Converters, charity shops, antique, food outlets, newsagents and off licences, PC and phone repair, pubs and restaurants, crappy clothes shops.

That's Margate in a nut shell.
 
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#108142
Pattaya

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
andrew wrote:
BHS are closing down also. High street is a dead duck, soon there only be Cash Converters, charity shops, antique, food outlets, newsagents and off licences, PC and phone repair, pubs and restaurants, crappy clothes shops.

That's Margate in a nut shell.


Margate high street has struggled because of the large shopping center Westwood Cross.High streets in general have been loosing out to out of town shopping for years anyway.
Shops go through phases anyway.You can't move for charity shops now,but back in the 80s estate agents and weird banks were all the rage.
 
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#108162
hedda

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
you will soon find, as in Melbourne & Sydney that all roads lead to Westfield.

High Street parking will become limited or non-existent.

And once in Westfield you will never find your car again. Believe me, my late friend planned all these strategies for the Lowys.
 
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#108165
In The Know

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
andrew wrote:
BHS are closing down also. High street is a dead duck, soon there only be Cash Converters, charity shops, antique, food outlets, newsagents and off licences, PC and phone repair, pubs and restaurants, crappy clothes shops.


.... PLUS the whole world on the internet
 
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#108166
In The Know

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
Pattaya wrote:
Margate high street has struggled because of the large shopping center Westwood Cross.

but surely Debenhams will be in that shopping centre?
They are in most out of town centres.

Their CFO has quit this morning.
 
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#108178
Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
They sell almost exactly the same as John Lewis so I dont know why they expected to do well.
You have to offer something either cheaper or different and Debenhams does neither.
 
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#108200
andrew

Re:Every year we get it ..... 11 Years, 6 Months ago  
surely Debenhams will be in that shopping centre?

Sorry ITK my dole money don't stretch that far.
 
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