The changing face of the high street

[alchresearch]

Maybe there is money to be made on the high street with a restaurant that serves unpretentious food. Simply good nosh without all the embellishment.

 

Wetherspoons certainly makes some money on their low cost unpretentious food. Whether its "good" or not I couldn't possibly comment

[geared]

It's good for the price you pay.

 

I had fish and chips there the other week and the fish was a whopper.

[Baron99]

Several restaurant chains are shutting quite a few places and many pubs are closing.

The food is often over priced and of poor quality and with beer at £3.90 a pint and hurlimans at £4.60 it's no wonder.

Go out for a pub lunch and you are looking at £40 or £50 for two of you.

A food critic was bemoaning the fact that so many decent restaurants were closing because people weren't willing to pay the going rate.

When the restaurants he writes about charge £60 -£70 for lunch is it any wonder?

Only the well off can afford those prices.

 

Red Lion pub on Charles St. Good food & prices for a city centre pub. You should get change from £30 for 2 meals & 2 rounds, depending what your tipple is?

[Chang]

It’s rent and minimum wage that’s killing the high street

[tinfoilhat]

With the recent announced closures of the likes of Maplins and Toys R us, the threat hanging over Bargain booze and the other announcement of store closures by two well known fashion retailers including new look the high street looks like its changing.

Just read about another, which has come as another shock, completely out of the blue, North East Game shop chain Graingers games has shut all 67 stores, also noticed the website just has a logo, and the facebook page has gone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43588365

 

now its come out of the blue for me as i live in the North East so go to Graingers games often when i want to buy a used game, and with Chips originally going, gamestation going, that only really leaves Game.

Is the end of high street physical gaming coming to an end?

 

Yeah, I saw the signs had gone up in Graingers at worksop and the staff were tidying up the last of the debris. That particular centre in arcade is in great danger of being empty. Body shop has gone, New Look if memory serves are circling the drain and WH Smith can't hang around forever. Wilkos got a profit warning before Christmas, and I can't remember how M&S are doing. Even burger king have quit I think (unless it's just a refit - but I didn't look like that.). There's reasonably priced parking next to it, and it's under cover so it must be rent costs.

 

It's sad, but not unexpected.

[Ridgewalk]

With the recent announced closures of the likes of Maplins and Toys R us, the threat hanging over Bargain booze and the other announcement of store closures by two well known fashion retailers including new look the high street looks like its changing.

Just read about another, which has come as another shock, completely out of the blue, North East Game shop chain Graingers games has shut all 67 stores, also noticed the website just has a logo, and the facebook page has gone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43588365

 

now its come out of the blue for me as i live in the North East so go to Graingers games often when i want to buy a used game, and with Chips originally going, gamestation going, that only really leaves Game.

Is the end of high street physical gaming coming to an end?

 

 

 

“The high street looks like it’s changing” ! Where have you been for 40 years ?

 

The previous Tory govt even had a “ Tsar”, Mary Porteus looking at the issue, not sure what happened to her report.

 

Greenfield sites are the norm now, built I would have thought, for the convenience of car access etc.

 

The changing face of town centres is as much a question of sociology as economics to my mind.

 

I visited Los Angeles two years ago, “ Downtown” is somewhereyou wouldn’t want to go.

[tzijlstra]

In my opinion it is a good thing and slowly but surely we are beginning to see how a city centre can function without shopping being the main-draw here in Sheffield. I don't know about others, but these days I go to the City more often for a nice meal or visiting the theatre etc. than I do for shopping. I suspect that is increasingly the case for most people.

[Cyclone]

And CEX is pretty much everywhere these days, apart from the affluent middle class areas which tend to view videogames as a hedonistic, pointless working class frivolity.

 

Your prejudices are showing just a little, there, no, just at the corner, that's it, poke them back down.

[Ridgewalk]

In my opinion it is a good thing and slowly but surely we are beginning to see how a city centre can function without shopping being the main-draw here in Sheffield. I don't know about others, but these days I go to the City more often for a nice meal or visiting the theatre etc. than I do for shopping. I suspect that is increasingly the case for most people.

 

Personally lament the disappearance of bookshops from shopping centres. The old Independent bookshop on Surrey street, now a flipping Starbucks, (one of a thousand coffee shops in the town centre ) and Rare and Racy near Devonshire Green. Plus lots of smaller bookshops in the suburbs

[Anna B]

Small independent shops are what draw the crowds in small market towns, not the big chain stores. We need more of those interesting, quirky type of shops that have something different to offer.