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On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:20:03 +0000, BrritSki <
rtilbury@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/02/2026 22:30, Kate B wrote:
On 10/02/2026 19:36, Nick Odell wrote:
Third letter down..
<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/10/we-need-a-fresh-
vision-to-save-our-high-streets>
Excellent points.
True, and I lament the death of the High St as much as anyone.
But practically, how do you prevent supermarkets opening out of town ?
And many people, myself included, find doing all my shopping in one go
in about 30 minutes is extremely convenient. I still use the specialist >butcher and fishmonger in town when there's something special I need and >hopefully they will keep going.
Unfortunately, they can't really live on the something specials - as
the specialist cheese shop in a nearby town shows. Especially when the
big boys get them in their sights.
I used not to visit that nearby town and I didn't know that it had a
specialist cheese shop: all I knew was that, on those occasions when I
would stop off at that out-of-town Tesco, I found all their fancy
cheeses far cheaper than in other branches of Tesco and couldn't
understand why.
I suspect that there's some typically French law requiring French
supermarkets to support, not strangle the little shops because
whenever I visited a French supermarket there seemed to be a line-up
of local shops and produce under the same roof. The bigger of the
French-owned supermarkets in Argentina seem to do the same and it
doesn't seem such a bad idea.
Rosie doesn't mention Amazon as a town centre killer as well...
...and of course Amazon doesn't have to undercut other products (IME
it's often much more expensive) it just has to be one click away from
delivery.
My only regret about eschewing Amazon is that I didn't wait a little
longer and make it a protest against the owner toadying up to the
Orange Emperor or wait a little longer still and make it a protest
against his evisceration of the Washington Post.
Nick
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