http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Scots stores hit hardest by online boom" en Sun, 31 May 2026 14:42:11 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3378#post-35196 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:12:33 +0000 kaputnik 35196@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find it hard to mourn a lot of the shops that have been "lost". Victims of their own rubbishness a la Woolworths. I hear Thorntons might be next. I find it hard to care, if you base your business model around overpriced crap chocolate masquerading as gourmet chocolate, you shouldn't be surprised if you hit hard times during a recession. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3378#post-35195 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:09:16 +0000 SRD 35195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More local shops please! not chains.</p> <p>(then again, I must admit to a little bit of happiness of idea of a Wagamama opening. We used to go to the original many years ago, when it regularly had queues up the stairs to the street. somehow can't quite believe it will be as good as I remember...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3378#post-35193 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:04:36 +0000 chdot 35193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Top-stores-check-out-of.6798074.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Top-stores-check-out-of.6798074.jp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3378#post-35190 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:40:55 +0000 chdot 35190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Current Private Eye -</p> <p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6017/5914687021_e4f0a04eb1.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3378#post-35185 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:55:31 +0000 chdot 35185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/news/home-news/scots-stores-hit-hardest-by-online-boom-1.1110996" rel="nofollow">http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/news/home-news/scots-stores-hit-hardest-by-online-boom-1.1110996</a></p> <p>Probably doesn't include bike shops (yet) but will increasingly affect 'the high street' and reduce choice if/when people 'shop local'. </p> <p>But, as always, things change! Princes Street wasn't designed to have shops and in many places corner shops have reverted to houses. </p> <p>And who knew we needed so many cafés?? </p>