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Marks and Spencers
Oil and Vinegar shop
Gift shop
Cafe/coffee house
Restaurant
Others please list!!!!!!
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2006-12-12 07:22:25 · 13 answers · asked by wizz1888 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
newsagents
marks and spencers
stationers
sports apparel store
grocers please
book store
restaurant
2006-12-14 18:54:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Small individual shops which don't belong to a chain, and sell stuff which isn't mass produced or plastic buckets for a quid.
Sadly, there's not many of them left, so if you can't buy it at Wilkinsons, Woolworths, Tesco or Primark, you're pretty well out of luck.
It doesn't really matter what type of small shops they are, but the usual spread that you used to see before town centres became nothing more than arcades of charity shops, fast food outlets and estate agents. Small family run jewellers, clothes shops, shoe shops, car parts, furniture - you name it, it used to be there! Most towns don't even have a bookshop now :( Now the chains have taken over, they all sell pretty much the same things at the same prices, and they're now shifting to out of town malls, leaving a wasteland behind.
Would I use them? Yes, because I'd rather a small business had my money than a large one. And because at a small shop, generally speaking, your custom is important: you're one out of maybe 2,000 customers, not one out of 2,000,000.
2006-12-12 15:26:22 · answer #2 · answered by winballpizard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cafes and shops owned and operated by a small business/family.
2006-12-12 15:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to see independent shops, including independent department stores. There are too many chains now and towns are starting to lose their identities.
Big business is eating up the small independent traders and we'll have nothing unique left.
2006-12-12 15:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by Rachel F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head Shops are cool
2006-12-12 15:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by firefly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coffee with a little something to eat, like Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts.
2006-12-12 15:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by hirebookkeeper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coffee shops if there is a lot of foot traffic, like in a mall or busy shopping area.
2006-12-12 17:05:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to see alternative or extreme sportclothing shops there are never enough of them.
Also I like quirky shops that sell 'stuff' like Hawkins Bazaar
2006-12-12 15:30:04 · answer #8 · answered by cigaro19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an old fashioned butcher shop (to compete with WM meats)
where they might know your name or if your new in town and how you like your roast beef cut. Some organic and local selection is good too.
2006-12-12 15:31:35 · answer #9 · answered by Danie Dee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Internet cafe with good coffee, pastry and world newspapers.
2006-12-13 12:40:04 · answer #10 · answered by lpaganus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋