Comments on: Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead A Site About Everything and Nothing Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:34:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4956 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:11:06 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4956 LB tell me about the floor ! You cannot wear leather soled shoes ! Internet sales brings an interesting dimension. It does not have to be a huge surge to put shops out of business. A shop could easily be surviving on a profit level of 5% of turnover. That being so, 5% drop in sales to the internet doesn't seem much on the face of it but is enogh to put them out of business RC LB
tell me about the floor !
You cannot wear leather soled shoes !

Internet sales brings an interesting dimension. It does not have to be a huge surge to put shops out of business. A shop could easily be surviving on a profit level of 5% of turnover.
That being so, 5% drop in sales to the internet doesn’t seem much on the face of it but is enogh to put them out of business

RC

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Jordan http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4955 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:08:40 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4955 The problem is the unemployment. If a place lacks the industry it just breeds poverty. I visited Grimsby a long time ago and I was shocked at the amount of poverty there was. There just seemed to be a lot of over-weight, scruffy people with children by the score. It’s not a town that you really think ‘let’s go there for a day out’ The Great in Grimsby has long since been dropped; the once thriving fish industry is no longer. As for shops anywhere, if people have money then shops do well, the closure of shops and the re-opening of £ shops and discount shops, are all that poverty towns can accommodate. The problem is the unemployment. If a place lacks the industry it just breeds poverty.

I visited Grimsby a long time ago and I was shocked at the amount of poverty there was. There just seemed to be a lot of over-weight, scruffy people with children by the score. It’s not a town that you really think ‘let’s go there for a day out’
The Great in Grimsby has long since been dropped; the once thriving fish industry is no longer.

As for shops anywhere, if people have money then shops do well, the closure of shops and the re-opening of £ shops and discount shops, are all that poverty towns can accommodate.

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4954 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:07:49 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4954 WoE you mention the local craft shop, a great shop superbly laid out and run by a great lady who is both enthusiastic and hard working. It's great to see shops like that surviving. When rental rates are more realistic different shops can stay open, not sure how many shops in your town would remain open on £72k pa rent though ! From what I understand there is alrteady a thriving 'underground market' there :) Best RC WoE
you mention the local craft shop, a great shop superbly laid out and run by a great lady who is both enthusiastic and hard working.
It’s great to see shops like that surviving.

When rental rates are more realistic different shops can stay open, not sure how many shops in your town would remain open on £72k pa rent though !

From what I understand there is alrteady a thriving ‘underground market’ there :)
Best
RC

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4951 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:47:23 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4951 Rod, Good post, the problem with Freshney Place is the death wish that is the flooring-bloody awful. The internet is the thing now, far more choice, better service and much cheaper. I feel for the smaller shops who really try their hardest, it's the big stores full of staff who couldn't give a monkey's that get my goat. I'm going to start an internet meals on wheels service before it's too late! LB Rod,
Good post, the problem with Freshney Place is the death wish that is the flooring-bloody awful. The internet is the thing now, far more choice, better service and much cheaper. I feel for the smaller shops who really try their hardest, it’s the big stores full of staff who couldn’t give a monkey’s that get my goat.
I’m going to start an internet meals on wheels service before it’s too late!
LB

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4950 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:42:37 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4950 WoE, I've been on a rickshaw in the middle of a Bangkok rush hour, the last thing on my mind was if he had a bell! WoE,
I’ve been on a rickshaw in the middle of a Bangkok rush hour, the last thing on my mind was if he had a bell!

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Witches of Eastwick http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4949 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:53:15 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4949 Rod, There's not as much high street shopping going on these days, people shop on-line, saves time and parking expenses. Mind you a good point in question is our local craft shop ... we gave it six months but more than a year later it's gone from strength to strength selling expensive card making goods. Apparently the business is on-line as well so presumably takes more from that source than from casual shoppers. Just shows though that it's hard to judge who will survive and who will fail. We've lost two retail outlets this summer and who knows what profits the others are making? A park and ride tram system that's what Lincoln needs like Sheffield, where public transport seems to work well as far as we can remember. Our plans for an 'underground' for our beloved market town have once again been thrown out by the Council :) so perhaps our next business venture might be WoEs Rickshaw Taxi, ecologically sound and very glamorous, but as yet without driver so we'll have to lean heavily on the good will of the Tuesday gathering. Never was there a job more tailor-made for you Rod and we'll give you a nosebag of gougere for inflight refuelling :) WoE p.s. yes a bell is necessary for a bicycle - vital for a rickshaw travelling at speed Rod,

There’s not as much high street shopping going on these days, people shop on-line, saves time and parking expenses. Mind you a good point in question is our local craft shop … we gave it six months but more than a year later it’s gone from strength to strength selling expensive card making goods. Apparently the business is on-line as well so presumably takes more from that source than from casual shoppers. Just shows though that it’s hard to judge who will survive and who will fail. We’ve lost two retail outlets this summer and who knows what profits the others are making? A park and ride tram system that’s what Lincoln needs like Sheffield, where public transport seems to work well as far as we can remember.

Our plans for an ‘underground’ for our beloved market town have once again been thrown out by the Council :) so perhaps our next business venture might be WoEs Rickshaw Taxi, ecologically sound and very glamorous, but as yet without driver so we’ll have to lean heavily on the good will of the Tuesday gathering. Never was there a job more tailor-made for you Rod and we’ll give you a nosebag of gougere for inflight refuelling :)

WoE

p.s. yes a bell is necessary for a bicycle - vital for a rickshaw travelling at speed

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