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There are many reasons why people don't shop in Dover; I do think that many people go elsewhere because they think they can't get anything here - without even checking, on many occasions.
Yes, the choice is limited, but we do have ladies clothes and gents too, a few years ago we had a plethora of shoe shops, now we have just two.
We have De Bradelei, where you can buy things for the home as well as for yourself, we have haberdashery shops, all manner of food and drink outlets - cafes, restaurants, pubs etc.
School uniforms etc. green-grocers, phone shops, estate agents, gift shops; great gift shops too - look at Curiosity of Dover in Cannon Street, they have some great designer jewellery and hand-made hand-bags, designer sun-glasses, as well as swarovski crystal and moorcroft pottery.
Yankee Gifts in Priory Street have just started a 25% discount sale - 25%, now that's worth having.
I am not complacent at all as we do need more shops and greater variety too.
We also need the buildings smartened up - they can do it in other Towns, we must do it here.
Every Town has the odd closed shop, but between them closing and someone else taking it over, it must not be allowed to be left in the state that Party Planners and the old Zoom/ Kodak shop were left in.
ASDA won't be the only shop in the DTIZ area, they do bring shops in - look at those around ASDA in Folkestone, brightens up the whole area.
Roger