Looks like a re-fit is in progress. Anyone know what’s coming?
hopefully NOT a Nail-Bar, Coffee Shop, Vape shop…Its quite a small site so I find it hard to envisage what may take it on..
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Can’t agree more! Would be nice to have some sort of fruit & veggies shop, that is open slightly longer than 5pm 
. Or a 24h pharmacy- there is none in the area.
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Coincidentally, one half of the shop was Vickers greengrocers probably up until the 80s.
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I think the fundamental problem for both traditional fruit and veg shops and old style bakeries we’d love to have is the economics. The value of each sale is relatively low and margins are tight, so they need to sell a very high volume to remain viable. Years ago, when more people did their everyday shopping locally, that volume was much easier to achieve. With today’s shopping habits and supermarket competition, sadly these kinds of traditional shops are much harder to make financially viable.
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agree ! economics aside I’d welcome a REAL fruit and veg shop AND a pharmacy
even 9-7pm would be nice.
Being nosey I phoned the commercial estate agent when a sign went up above it saying a lease or sale had been agreed. They were tight lipped about what was coming but said the community would probably welcome it.
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