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  Any interesting shops and services in the area could advertise in or around the new shop - the arts centre for example. Services and shops need to develop in response to demand and opportunity - even the top-heavy supermarket plethora we are accumulating in Dover might offer some opportunities for that. But Rick, you are sadly right in many ways about the high street: but rather than doing away with it perhaps we would be better off seeing it as a way of developing different high streets with different services and options. I hate supermarkets, to be frank, and hate shopping in them, but they are convenient and often cheap - but they offer a limited selection and can't hope to cater for specialisms and more esoteric markets. The books they sell have a definite market, not mine - I need to go to second hand bookstores and the internet. The music they offer is limited, so off i go again to the internet and special shops. The clothes are uninspiring - here we go to Lands End and Joe Browns again. And the booze shop in Soho is the only place to shop for great vodkas!! But for baked beans and pasta I guess I will continue to shop in a warehouse.

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