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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  • The cost of rent and business rates makes shops no longer viable, we are all guilty of shopping online as it’s cheaper and more convenient. I used to buy all my car paints and consumables locally, I now buy 90% online with next morning delivery. I was paying £50 +vat per litre for car paint, online it’s half that. A warehouse can be in a low cost area and employ less people. Last week I bought brake parts, I got a quote locally at £120, I bought the same brand online for £52 including delivery, I would love to support local businesses more but just can’t afford to.

  • Mortgage-Based Econmies, like ours, debase our currency. Along with excessive printing of money, Fiat, inflation hits hard. This lowers our purchasing power.

    The problem isn't Banking, it's Centralised Banking.

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