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March 2013
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DOES HADLEIGH WANT TO KEEP ITS HIGH STREET? Hadleigh has one of the few remaining traditional High Streets in the Country, it has retained small independent shops alongside the Co-op supermarket and together over the last century they have changed to meet the changing trends of the decades. Unlike most of the country we have not needed governments and celebrities to ‘re-vitalise’ our shops nor are we full of charity shops and boarded up ex-shops. 92% of our High Street buildings are listed and are of no interest to the large national traders and are only of commercial use for small independent shops If Morrisons perform the task of keeping the estimated 80% of monies that is spent in supermarkets in the towns surrounding Hadleigh and our other shopping patterns do not change then our High Street would survive. Unfortunately since they have opened, the shops in our High Street and surrounding villages have taken a serious fall in custom, the
amount of the losses they are suffering would make headlines if they were one of the national stores. We read quarterly of the one or two percent losses of companies like Tesco, and the concerns as their share prices drop. How loud would they scream if they were suffering the fifteen to 40 percent drop in customers our independent shops are sustaining at the moment. They could not continue trading with those losses, so can our shops survive? If we want to keep our High Street then we need to return to our preMorrisons shopping patterns, we either use our High Street shops or say goodbye to them.
So EITHER USE IT OR LOSE IT
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