Where have all the shops gone?

I went to Bangor earlier as I needed some stuff I can only get from there and hoped to get a few things I want/need, like new shoes, even though there's only one shoe shop there now. I found the shop where I can often find clothes to fit me closed. The shoe shop had very little in store, H&B don't do the hemp oil I wanted, despite it being on thier website. 

It's really doing my head in, it's bad enough having to go there to get spices and bits from an ethnic grocers and other stuff from the wholefood shop, but to find pretty much empty streets with such a post apocalyptic and feral feeling is really upsetting. I know I could get some stuff online, but the P&P on a lot of it is expensive and it dosen't come free with prime either. I'd like to use amazon less too. As for other stuff, I've now no idea where I will get clothes or shoes, the usual places have nothing I like or that fits, or is suitable.

Its making feel really worried, it's bad enough having to wear winter boots in summer because I can't find any shoes, will I be wearing sandals in winter, because all of a sudden suitable stuff will appear in end of season sales? I had this before, I remember walking home from town with broken shoes, crying my eyes out because there was nothing in my size in 3 or 4 different shoe shops I went into, this was a few years ago now, but it seems those times are on the way back.

So if you see someone walking about wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for my head and a pair of wellingtom boots that leak and are falling off my feet, it will be me.

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  • Online shopping is killing the high street. I don’t go out shopping in person much but when I do the high street shops are almost always empty, and very few people actually in the street. The main shop where I live is Waitrose and that one is the one that everyone goes to.

    Everywhere else is mostly a ghost town.

    We did have this really cool shop that sold a bit of everything – clothing, antiques, sweets, chocolate, books – but the council put the car park prices up (like really UP) and it stopped people going there. Within 2 years that shop had closed. So things like that don’t help either.

    Most people shop online now, it’s cheaper usually and if you’re like me and hate going out because you get so anxious it makes you sick... online shopping is like a slice of heaven. Only two people I know refuse to shop online and that’s both my grans. They’re from a different generation though and have a deep mistrust of everything electronic, hence they only pay with cash. They won’t do online banking which is what I personally prefer.

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  • Online shopping is killing the high street. I don’t go out shopping in person much but when I do the high street shops are almost always empty, and very few people actually in the street. The main shop where I live is Waitrose and that one is the one that everyone goes to.

    Everywhere else is mostly a ghost town.

    We did have this really cool shop that sold a bit of everything – clothing, antiques, sweets, chocolate, books – but the council put the car park prices up (like really UP) and it stopped people going there. Within 2 years that shop had closed. So things like that don’t help either.

    Most people shop online now, it’s cheaper usually and if you’re like me and hate going out because you get so anxious it makes you sick... online shopping is like a slice of heaven. Only two people I know refuse to shop online and that’s both my grans. They’re from a different generation though and have a deep mistrust of everything electronic, hence they only pay with cash. They won’t do online banking which is what I personally prefer.

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