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Originally Posted by cmjones01
Lots of the shop locations are probably too expensive to run, but the market the company used to serve 30 years ago is still there, in a newer form.
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Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, for many reasons it's much cheaper to sell stuff on line. A couple of years ago we needed a new dishwasher. There was a shop, part of a chain, around the corner that I had bought stuff from for many years. In the meantime the chain had a website and so I looked online to see what was available. I wanted to support the shop so I found what we were looking for on the website, printed out the relevant page and then went to the shop to order the dishwasher. For the shop, the quoted price was the wholesale price. They expected me to pay a few hundred pounds more. The result was that I bought online. In the meantime the shop has disappeared.