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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return."
Everywhere you go now theres costa  |
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"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return."
I know ! It's sad. I miss pushing my barrow to the apple market and making my own candles with deer tallow.
Got to go im weaving some nice plaid for a suit I want to wear in 2015 xxxx |
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"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return.
I know ! It's sad. I miss pushing my barrow to the apple market and making my own candles with deer tallow.
Got to go im weaving some nice plaid for a suit I want to wear in 2015 xxxx "
haha, funny crumpet |
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"Soooo shall we boycott Tesco? I hate the place with a vengeance!
My town is not chainy. Come and visit  "
bournville village has fought Tesco's and won in regards to alcohol sales in village so it is possible |
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"Soooo shall we boycott Tesco? I hate the place with a vengeance!
My town is not chainy. Come and visit
I shop at Waitrose because I hate poor people. "
I know there's a joke about Merseyside in there somewhere  |
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I cant boycott tesco as i live next door, we have a costa coffee and a nero's is going to open and a sandwich chain think its the ones that own greggs. we have a waitrose or sainsburies coming on the outskirts of the town but its mostl one of shops here and boutiques |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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I dislike Tesco for the way they treat their suppliers. Besides that I try and support local business wherever I can, be it the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Seriously! |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return.
I know ! It's sad. I miss pushing my barrow to the apple market and making my own candles with deer tallow.
Got to go im weaving some nice plaid for a suit I want to wear in 2015 xxxx "
You could have done the candle making and weaving in Lyme until very recently. 
I do want people to have jobs but walking around the town and hearing the tales of things closing as they can't compete. Often it is visitors using the chains as they are comforted by the familiar. |
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"I cant boycott tesco as i live next door, we have a costa coffee and a nero's is going to open and a sandwich chain think its the ones that own greggs. we have a waitrose or sainsburies coming on the outskirts of the town but its mostl one of shops here and boutiques"
Going all up market now but I base my life around LIDL opening times  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Come to whitley bay bars shutting every week only shops are charity shop even the shops that are empty and look shit the have put a picture of a food shop on the window to make it look better lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return."
The problem is the big boys are cheaper and many don't want to pay the extra. I go along with keeping the village/town life going but when it is a lot more money then you think twice. |
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By *U1966Man
over a year ago
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"Soooo shall we boycott Tesco? I hate the place with a vengeance!
My town is not chainy. Come and visit "
What is Morrisons then
My town doesnt have any superstores or costa just lots of empty shops and i would like a large tescos not just a metro |
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"Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains"
Simple solution ....don't go there I've stopped going so the big supermarkets on a regular basis. I now mainly shop at a small local co-op (yes I know they are a big supermarket) and butcher who also sells veg in our local parade of shops... believe it or not we are spending less as there is less choice. Still need to go to a supermarket now and again though as they do not have everything....like they don't wholemeal flower for bread making.
In the main I don't go to the coffee shops as I refuse to pay that much for a bleeding coffee. I will take someone else to one if they like to get coffee there.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Of a bad bunch, Tesco are the worst. There are 4 in Inverness and the place isn't that big, only 57 thousand in the large highland postcode area. There are 2 Extras and a regular, all within 3 miles of each other, and a large metro in the center. They cannot all be making money. It's been said that they often do this, blanket an area to force out competition but I've never seen it before moving here.
And thats before you count the other supermarkets here, morrisons, asda, lidl, aldi, co-op.
It's no wonder the town center is full of pound shops (3) and charity shops (10 that I know of). As thats all thats left that the supermarkets don't sell.
Pretty soon you'll be buying everything from a supermarket of one variety or another.
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Of a bad bunch, Tesco are the worst. There are 4 in Inverness and the place isn't that big, only 57 thousand in the large highland postcode area. There are 2 Extras and a regular, all within 3 miles of each other, and a large metro in the center. They cannot all be making money. It's been said that they often do this, blanket an area to force out competition but I've never seen it before moving here.
And thats before you count the other supermarkets here, morrisons, asda, lidl, aldi, co-op.
It's no wonder the town center is full of pound shops (3) and charity shops (10 that I know of). As thats all thats left that the supermarkets don't sell.
Pretty soon you'll be buying everything from a supermarket of one variety or another.
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The land-banking is one of the worst traits. They can afford to leave property empty to prevent local shops taking the space and creating any sort of alternative.
I am saddened that even my beloved Waitrose has bowed to the pressure and is rolling out Little Waitrose shops all over the place. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"From Suffolk to Cumbria I know people fighting big supermarkets to try and keep their market towns and maintain independent retailers.
Tesco are in Lyme Regis now, along with a Costa Coffee and other chains. It was sad to see some of the old shops gone, never to return."
Lyme, is a lovely little seaside town and agree with what you are saying. Spend most summer hols down there and around charmouth |
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