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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

Calne is badly in need of a array of shops and not clumps of them.why does calne need..
8 hairdresser,
3 charity shops,
3 supermarkets
3 fish and chip shops
3 Chinese
2 Indian
2 kebab shops

yet there is no where in calne to buy a mens suit or children clothes.

competition is fine but with more of a balance in calne it would attract those who do not live in calne in to the town.

GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

You can't really dictate to a town what sort of shops they can have. If a shop is successful then surely it is doing no wrong? Diversity is something every town strives for.
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iamelliot · Aspiring Calnite Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 45 Status:

Right, but Calne's lacking lots of basic types of shop!

Someone needs to manage working out what shops Calne needs, and then working out how to attract those types of shops here. I know some of this stuff is already done by various groups, incl. the town council, the district council and others.

It's always going to be down to who's prepared to set up shop here, but work needs to be done making Calne look like an attractive place to do business.
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

Peter Dolman · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

there is a shop selling childrens clothes, namely Face Value situated in the old post office building. not sure if the cater for all ages but they do have some.

for 18 months you could buy mens clothes in the town but as some of you know i closed it because not enough people shopped there.

i therefore do get a little up tight when i hear comments about the lack of shops in the town. why should i or anyone else open a shop, and all that entails, just on the likely hood that some one may, just may, decide to visit it and god forbid buy something?

i don' quite agree with the list as i am assured that there are 11 hairdressers in the town, but don't ask me to name them all.

planning issues are not within the remit of the town council and all decisions must be based on planning law not that we have enough takeaways in the town already (no matter that there is).
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rosco · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject:

Peter's right here, it has to be market forces. If there are 8 hairdressers, that must be because there is enough trade to keep them going: no one is running them as a charity.

iamelliot · Aspiring Calnite Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 45 Status:

exactly.. if the 11/12 hairdressers are doing well then that's fine. There probably is a market for lots of things in the town but 1) everyone/most people shop elsewhere and 2) the shops aren't there anyway.

If there's ever going to be a big change in the shopping habits of Calne residents, potential shoppers need to be encouraged to shop in the town and potential businesses need to be encouraged to set up shop.
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kathy27 · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject:

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

so is it a end to high streets all together?not just calne?

Peter Dolman · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

I had tee shirts starting at £5.00, ok not as cheap as Primark but you did'nt have to go all the way to Swindon to buy them.
I chose to open and to close when I did.
I do get annoyed when people complain that there are no shops in Calne, when there are do they get supported. The answer unfortunately is no.
A prime example being the shop that took over the old Jearys chemist shop next to Lloyds Bank. Another being the tee shirt shop.
Both closed due to the lack of business.

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