State of our high street !

Interesting that the thread has shifted to retail park retailers, the ones that killed the high street, now they are struggling?
 
Last year a man asked me for directions to the PO. I gave him detailed instructions on how to walk the mile there, and he was very grateful and set off.

A few days later I was going past and found out the PO had closed a year previously.

I've now moved town so hope I won't bump into him again.
 
Bob Rathbone said:
Seems that the money laundering business has moved out of tanning parlours into haircuts.
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Just went for a cut at one of them last week and it's been fitted out again, very fancy! Can't have spent less than 15k on it. It has 5 cutting stations and I've never seen more than two in operation the same time, usually just one and hardly ever have to wait.
 
I can understand businesses like these “American” candy stores requiring low initial investment (just the stock) where they can move out within a few hours taking any unsold stock with them but gents hair cut shops have thousands invested in fancy decoration and lighting which cannot be so easily removed or reused.

on a parallel topic, I note that Welsh farmers have started to protest as I predicted they would. They new rules make it barely profitable to farm even on a good year, having to set aside 10% of your land to rewilding, in the face of rising diesel and fertiliser prices. The Welsh govt industrial strategy has shown that not only does it attracts zero investment, it’s actually making large businesses move out unless heavily subsidised
 
quasar9 said:
I can understand businesses like these “American” candy stores requiring low initial investment (just the stock) where they can move out within a few hours taking any unsold stock with them but gents hair cut shops have thousands invested in fancy decoration and lighting which cannot be so easily removed or reused.
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Yes, I have to say I can't see point if it's laundering. maybe I'm missing something and the business is more profitable than it appears superficially.
 
quasar9 said:
I can understand businesses like these “American” candy stores requiring low initial investment (just the stock) where they can move out within a few hours taking any unsold stock with them but gents hair cut shops have thousands invested in fancy decoration and lighting which cannot be so easily removed or reused.

on a parallel topic, I note that Welsh farmers have started to protest as I predicted they would. They new rules make it barely profitable to farm even on a good year, having to set aside 10% of your land to rewilding, in the face of rising diesel and fertiliser prices. The Welsh govt industrial strategy has shown that not only does it attracts zero investment, it’s actually making large businesses move out unless heavily subsidised
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No one is forcing them to accept more subsidies.

Farmers are under pressure from food prices paid by supermarkets, we are not the only country that subsidises farmers to produce for less than they sell to keep food prices low, it's a dubious model, it leaves farmers in the difficult position of not having the publics support for higher food costs.

The Welsh protest lost it's way very quickly, they were protesting about a system already in place in England, put in place by Rishi Sunak, who visited the Welsh protesto_O
 
quasar9 said:
I can understand businesses like these “American” candy stores requiring low initial investment (just the stock) where they can move out within a few hours taking any unsold stock with them but gents hair cut shops have thousands invested in fancy decoration and lighting which cannot be so easily removed or reused.

on a parallel topic, I note that Welsh farmers have started to protest as I predicted they would. They new rules make it barely profitable to farm even on a good year, having to set aside 10% of your land to rewilding, in the face of rising diesel and fertiliser prices. The Welsh govt industrial strategy has shown that not only does it attracts zero investment, it’s actually making large businesses move out unless heavily subsidised
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For barbers and hair salons, the current trend is for the owner to supply the services and a chair. The barber or hairdresser, then rents the chair from the owner of the establishment. So you have a salon owner with no workers, no N.I. or employment law issues, no holiday pay and really no responsibilities, sounds good to me.
 
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