Corner shops.

[80sChav]

Re: Corner shops.

I often think of howc eveb 12/15 years since in my home town we had great unusual shop's that was like Semi versions of Poundland and 99p - like a Fads we had that was well as selling wallpaper etc you could get other stuff there like in a Corner Shop! Which supplier they used mazes me even now, but it was same with some other similar Shop's too.

More so at this time of year- they are real unusual places you miss and then it make's you think what I truly miss - when I think of Poundland like in my Town have now 2 Shop's in the space of not eben 15 yards and it makes you wonder if they aretrying to gain a Monoply even to a level a Small Supermarket Express type store hopes to corner the market.

80sChav

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

i would for sure swap a modern supermarket for the daily trudge to the market or shop.

ok the big supermarket may have more but the small corner shop was cheaper and you could meet up with friends there and chat till you where bue in the face.

these corner shops built communities.

even though we have a tesco in town i never go near it.
i rather go to the smaller shops.

I have very fond memories of our local shops. but in reality how many of us would swap the convenience and variety of a modern supermarket for the daily trudge to the market or shop. they only died out because we stopped using them.

[Retrogames]

Re: Corner shops.

Although I guess if shop rents go down enough our kids might restart community shopping. Went into town today, the local TV/electrical shop has gone and so has the hardware shop! That's just under half the shops in town since last summer- shocking.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Corner shops.

I wonder if our children will be looking back and reminiscing about trips to the tiny local Tesco Express, where they stuffed food going out of date on the bottom shelf of the fridge with a yellow sticker on it... "do you remember pulling up to the petrol station ones and dad cursing after waiting behind a car at the pump for twenty minutes whilst the driver strolled around the shop buying food instead of just paying for her petrol..."!

Lol, the sad thing is I bet they will!

[Richard1978]

Re: Corner shops.

I've got 3 with walking distance of me, all seem to have almost too much shelving for the floor space, making it hard to look round.

Two of them are in the ground floor of tower blocks, which don't think I've seen elsewhere.

[Dancetothe]

Re: Corner shops.

We had 4 within the radius of maybe, 100m. Sherbet liquorice thingys and refreshers were a standard buy!

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

somehow i cant see it our kids looking back and reminiscing about trips to the tiny local Tesco Express, where they stuffed food going out of date on the bottom shelf of the fridge with a yellow sticker on it..

Talking of corner shops there are quite a few i know that are still going still doing a great trade i go into them quite a bit.
I find corner shops more friendly.
We have one in my town mackles its called and it still sells all the sweets you remember in those big plastic see through screw top containers.

You can still get half a pound of this and that.

[Retrogames]

Re: Corner shops.

I wonder if our children will be looking back and reminiscing about trips to the tiny local Tesco Express, where they stuffed food going out of date on the bottom shelf of the fridge with a yellow sticker on it... "do you remember pulling up to the petrol station ones and dad cursing after waiting behind a car at the pump for twenty minutes whilst the driver strolled around the shop buying food instead of just paying for her petrol..."!

[shilton dipper]

Re: Corner shops.

we didn't have a corner shop but i remember there was a mobile shop that would come round.......we would clamber onboard to see what sweets the guy was selling...........must have been nearly 40 years ago lol............

[Trickyvee]

Re: Corner shops.

Supermarkets are convenient but I hate shopping in them. I do though because it is cheaper (if you are not side-tracked by impulse buys). Luckily I have one within walking distance and I find only being able to buy what I can physically carry stops me buying silly stuff. I live alone so I don't need much, but it is a good way to budget!

[80sChav]

Re: Corner shops.

I have very fond memories of our local shops. but in reality how many of us would swap the convenience and variety of a modern supermarket for the daily trudge to the market or shop. they only died out because we stopped using them.

I sure would swap a modern Supermarket for a Market/Town Centre ... but then again I don't drive If you don't drive though, you loose out by going to a Supermarket unless it's right in Town or you trudge with bags for a bus or by highly inflated taxi fare's!!!

[sweep]

Re: Corner shops.

I have very fond memories of our local shops. but in reality how many of us would swap the convenience and variety of a modern supermarket for the daily trudge to the market or shop. they only died out because we stopped using them.

[80sChav]

Re: Corner shops.

problem with shops now its all about money.
yes shops have more things u need and more variety.

I think I will have to disagree with you about Shop's having more thing's and variety Darren, sorry. I wish thing's was like they used to be,like when I was young you could get any Football Mag you wanted really from any Shop - as well as big places like WH Smiths (I don't know if you have them in Ireland or an equilvlent may-be!!? - now it's all the same nearly where-ever you go corner Shop or not!

I think it is the same with Supermarkets too - they "make out" they have better choice or a different choice but they don't really I think. I recall well smaller Supermarkets, lke ones that sold more frozen food's and you could get real unusual flavoured thing's like differing Cheescakes etc. Asda, Morrisons, Sainbury's and Tesco don't offer this like small Town "type corner shops" or even corner shop's did I feel sadly.

Sadly times have changed and for the worse I think. Corner Shops also created a Market Town feeling too ..... well they did in the Small Town and Small Village I was brought up in - you could walk from one end of the High Street to the other on the Market Day's their and it'd take about an hour/hour and half to do - looking in the small shop's and Market! You still can do this now, but the fun has gone and the timescale reduced due to there not being as many and pace of life being faster etc!!

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

problem with shops now its all about money.
yes shops have more things u need and more variety.


allcorner shops in my town are gone.
only one that is still around is mackles.

its family run and when the original owners passed away there kids took it over.

it still sells sweets in those big clear screw top plastic containers.

you can still order buythe quarter pound etc.

it still does as much business as it ever did.

[battyrat]

Re: Corner shops.

The top of our road in the 70's was a small co-op.Used to get the stamps from there.I still have a token somewhere from that place.Always had the best crisps around,Horror bags of my fav,Bones,or fangs.Splicers that used to break your teeth and spangles.Always had the basics that you needed in stock and never ran out.Shop keepers were so friendly.Then across the field and down another road,there was the papershop that sold so many interesting things including matchbox models,comics,books,nick naks,and all those wonderful sweets,10p got a hell of a lot of sweeties.That is where I spend my whole 5p pocket money,later raised to 10p.There were so many small shops in our area,all long gone now,including several small post offices which also doubled up as shops.
The newer shops all seem to be fags,boose,and cat food.Never have what you actually need,no basic stuff,high prices and staff that don't care if you get served or not while they gossip the day away.