a nation of STW shopkeepers – Page 2 – Chat Forum

maccruiskeen · 2018-07-02T22:10:39Z

I was having a chat in my local cafe recently. I've only be resident in the area for 8 years or so, so still finding out about the place recently. It came up in conversation that the village we were in - of about 2000 souls- being reasonably far from any towns manages to support two cafes, two little mini-marts, a florist, two hair dressers, and two chipshops and a pub. So about 10 businesses. Not bad - But someone pointed out that in most peoples memory there used to be 54 shops there. I thought that was amazing - you didn't have to leave the village to buy shoes, or a suit or a washing machine. Being one-person / one product enterprises, in a spirit of cooperation rather than competition - it meant each shop had its own personality. The cafe we were in used to be a shoe shop where.... "you could get any shoe you wanted, but not in your size. You would however leave with a pair of shoes - either ones that did fit or ones you didn't want" So..... on the STW High Street - who would sell what? 'Bear's Necessities' open all hours selling things you can't afford to run out of; bog roll, milk, single cigarettes, and insulin? 'Rusty's Paneer' single-issue cheesemongers? "Hora's House of Hammers" ?

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Badgers World of Sealant....."We've got the goo for you"

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In this hot weather, personal cooling devices;

Alex's Fan Palace.

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Can I run the Opticians?

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So long as you don't make a spectacle of yourself

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I don't think I'll be buying anything else from ZippyKona's shoe shop. When the sign in the window said "50% off" it turns out that means 50% of the shoe is missing

Posted : 05/07/2018 5:10 pm

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