howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 January 2011
11:1489962surprised to read that the high street bakers, butchers and fishmongers are making a bit of a comeback.
the last 3 months have shown consecutive growth after 5 years of continual decline.
december's sales on the high street were 2.8% up on the previous year while supermarket sales were 1.8% down.
since 2008 the number of small food retail outlets has risen by 11% and the number of farm shops has doubled over the same period.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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23 January 2011
11:3989965Good luck to all the small shops I hope trade keeps improving for them.
I wonder if the bad weather helped in getting the high street trade up as most of the really large supermarkets are out of town, not a good thing when people are unable to travel in their cars to reach them.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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23 January 2011
12:5089970We shop in Whitstable a lot, plenty of independant butchers, greengrocers, fish shops and bakers, there's more choice and the competition keeps the prices down. Lets hope it's an upward trend.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 January 2011
14:3389986i think that the concept of small independent shops fits in well with whitstable.
i think that the spending power there is much higher than in dover.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 January 2011
15:3289992Whitstable,yes both mywife and myself like it there but with the cost of fuel going up ,we are having to cut back in going out in the car.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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23 January 2011
15:5789995You can get there by bus within the hour 60 to Kearsney 15 0r 15a to Canterbury then bus to Whitstable By train a little longer as you need to get to Faversham first ..
If you have a bus bus its free .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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23 January 2011
17:2789999So there has been something beneficial in the fuel rises, Vic will be using the bus.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 January 2011
18:2390002jan
re; post 2
not so sure about the weather changing people's shopping habits, remember how treacherous our shopping centre was during the freeze?
most supermarkets are out on by-passes serviced by busy roads that beat the conditions found in town centres.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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23 January 2011
23:3290042it defo did for me Howard, bread was becoming a problem to get hold of as the main roads were still awful in Faversham and the roads arent exactly the best during nice times , so i ordered bread from the bakers and ensured i had some!
It definately slowed down trade as well.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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24 January 2011
07:4390048Most traders are having a hard time just now - have done for quite a while, but with improving weather (?), things may get better for them - your support will help too.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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24 January 2011
09:4790056Exactly my point Howard, they are on by-passes but when people cannot get the car out of the street where they live they use the local shops.
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