Old Woolworths on The Moor

[MrNM]

Sheffield is full of scrubbers... as the person said 99% of people who ask for anything on this forum starts with Cheap......... wanted..... Somtimes you have to pay for quality. The moor is for scrubbers... fact... Home bargins... £1 shop... Brilliant choice... Give me Leeds or Manchester anytime...

 

Have you discovered Meadowhall, Division St, Ecclesall Rd, or even Online shopping yet? Sounds like you should more to said Cities if you love them so much as you don't need to go there for quality despite the 75% cack state of our own city centre.

[Dozy]

Sheffield is full of scrubbers... as the person said 99% of people who ask for anything on this forum starts with Cheap......... wanted..... Somtimes you have to pay for quality. The moor is for scrubbers... fact... Home bargins... £1 shop... Brilliant choice... Give me Leeds or Manchester anytime...

 

Well, here's one scrubber who's going to be a very happy bunny if we do get another Home Bargains on The Moor - I've missed it since it closed down.

[MrNM]

you know what, half the time i think maybe i should - this city hasn't been as welcoming as it is often advertised. BUT:

 

your defensiveness pleases me - a bit if civic pride is what this place needs. like i said, i think it's a great city, just with a bit of a negative attitude at times. anyway... feel free to slate the outsider for saying the same thing as plenty of sheffielders, only with a bit more evidence than the usual 'the moor is crap'

 

as for the rest of your post, before your attack, i have already agreed with you, by and large. however, divi street is hardly camden town is it? mostly bars, with a couple of independent t-shirt shops. nice and all.

 

 

You need to embrace a place to be welcomed accordingly. The people are very friendly! But yes, negative as well! I agree 100% with you there. Negativity is a Sheffield disease to the point that it's probably the most negative place on earth and that aspect of is shames and angers me! (It's in part to do with the socialist mentality!)

[moke]

alright - i'll fess up. the opening a shop was a bit of a straw man, and indeed, as a resident of hillsborough, it was little more than a lament that an area that supports 4 butchers, 2 greengrocers, a fishmongers and other independent retailers, probably wont get the deli i would like it to have. eccy road would work fine, i'm sure.

 

"i find the impotent rage it attracts quite funny really." - Thats classed as sneering, perhaps snobish. It's not an objective thing to say... Think about it!

 

i said that AFTER i was called snobbish! besides, its also true! it must be the most hated part of the shopping heart of the city, but it seems to thrive! clearly plenty of those that slate it, use it.

[gina2007]

Well, here's one scrubber who's going to be a very happy bunny if we do get another Home Bargains on The Moor - I've missed it since it closed down.

 

And heres another scrubber who likes a bargain

[moke]

You need to embrace a place to be welcomed accordingly. The people are very friendly! But yes, negative as well! I agree 100% with you there. Negativity is a Sheffield disease to the point that it's probably the most negative place on earth and that aspect of is shames and angers me! (It's in part to do with the socialist mentality!)

 

indeed - i have come here for a better life, and a better education (MA in the offing, and hopefully a PhD as well as my work). the city has some amazing buildings, some great shops along the way 9if you hunt) great parks and gardens, the best cinema in the land, sport coming out of its arse () as well as some great (and seemingly underused) largely free art galleries.

 

however, within months we have been burgled, had our car nicked and had a hit and run driver smash up its bumper.... its a struggle at times!

 

my sheffield collegues (those of the few that live here - most in my dept. travel in to work here) spend so long complaining about the city, it makes you wonder why so many stay here, and don't follow the advice i was kindly offered upon putting up my thoughts on the moor.

[MrNM]

Of course it wouldn't work, some of the estates in Sheffield (just like the rest of England) like chip and kebab shops, Macdonalds and fast food places - they arn't educated or refined on taste and quality so it would be pointless in pretending that they could be.

 

I was in London over the weekend and we took a short walk from where my friend lives,in St Johns Wood, and found around 3 deli's on one junction! Breads, olives, tea's, meats, cheeses etc...it was great.

The Thai/Japanese supermarkets were well stocked also as was the wonderful Portobello market.

I thought 'I wish we had the abundance of shops like this in Sheffield' but in reality, we are a small city and one which is made up of majority of working class people who are on low incomes.

Without offending: I suspect from reading online that half of Sheffield are uneducated to foods and flavours and see processed food as being cheaper than the natural foods so there you have it.

 

 

 

I agree with this also, but again if Moke is looking at the city as a whole and not areas like Ecclesall Rd and Hunters bar - where a deli would do really well (provided it's stocked well and reasonable priced) then he's spent a lot of time looking at nothing.

Sheffield, IMO is a city which is working class, yes it has has great benefits, one being the peaks nearby, the other being small. However, if you like the finer side to things, you can get it here if you look properly, and if not then you grab supplies from other cities when you visit.

 

Yeah, having got all the way through this thread, I agree 95% with Moke. Just the tone at the start needed a little work on it There are a lot of fine suburbs in Sheffield though, infact most of them if you rip out much of the central neighbourhoods and areas of S12/14 up to around Charnock where is starts getting nice again.... From Mosbrough up to Stannington there is a vast amount of decent areas...

[MrNM]

i said that AFTER i was called snobbish! besides, its also true! it must be the most hated part of the shopping heart of the city, but it seems to thrive! clearly plenty of those that slate it, use it.

 

Yeah, I use the 99p shop and the markets but wishes these useful cheapo stores and outlets could be confined to an area and not manifested throughout the entire centre (the moor being the opposite end) as whether I can always afford it or not, a city centre should be a showpiece with high class shops as well as bargain shops. Choice really.

[MrNM]

And heres another scrubber who likes a bargain

 

Stick me down for the scrubber club then but I'd like to be able to come out of the pound shop with the shower gel thats the same brand but 4 times cheaper than boots and go into a good clothes shop (other than republic on Fargate and one or two places on Division St) and get a nice top without having to go to Meadowhall for real choice.........

[duckweed]

Why do we want to be like Leeds Manchester london whatever? Whats wrong with being Sheffield? Why can't we work out what we want and push for it instead of thinking we have to have a Harvey Nicks to become a city. We have in Sheffield a young city full of students who would probably find more use for Peacocks than Harvey Nicks. I agree we could do with more deli type shops but go down to sheaf market and you find almost any kind of food you could want there, it's just not in posh shops and charging the earth. Plenty of different kinds of restaurants round London Road too. I'd like to see a few more veggie establishments in the city too. We are northern and we like a bargain. What's wrong with that? Better than wasting money on something that has the right lable but is actually no better finished that the item which is £20 cheaper (probably made by the same people too) Some people are so easily conned. If you want to throw your money away throw it my way.