tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post9170549411868971507..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Charity Shops and FootfallMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-85262467207150214192013-11-27T12:49:17.500+00:002013-11-27T12:49:17.500+00:00Resale Price Maintenance is not a left wing cause:...Resale Price Maintenance is not a left wing cause: it is either right-wing or apolitical.It is possible to be a supporter of small shops and attack large predatory discounters at the same time.It is generally the case that those who bluster about the need to protect small shops and SMES, become demented by any attack on Tescos and Amazon.<br />I stand corrected in one regard(sarcasm): TS is all in favour of charity shops and just expressed himself badly.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-31333485367701625862013-11-27T10:04:48.518+00:002013-11-27T10:04:48.518+00:00DBCR do you actually read anyone's posts or co...DBCR do you actually read anyone's posts or comments before launching into a left-wing diatribe? Nowhere in the post has TS attacked charity shops, he has simply rubbished a report from a think tank who were obviously told what to conclude by their paymasters.<br /><br />As to your predictable "it's all the fault of big business" drivel, it may fit with your ideology, but not necessarily with the facts. The town I grew up in never had a bookshop until after the end of the NBA. It then built up to three, two of which were second-hand bookshops. It now has only one, but it is the second-hand shops that have gone. My current local town had a bookshop until very recently which only closed because the owners wanted to retire. If I buy a book online, I buy it from Abebooks, which is a website that enables thousands of small independent bookshops to sell online. They are usually cheaper than Amazon.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-7638785164295075652013-11-27T09:04:48.874+00:002013-11-27T09:04:48.874+00:00As Curmudgeon says charity shops are an effect of ...As Curmudgeon says charity shops are an effect of High Street run-down not a cause.People let shops to Charities because they can't get "proper tenants"ie all those stressed out private sector operators who just want to give employment with no heed of profits.<br />If you want to point the finger at the decline of shopping malls, high streets and corner shops, look at predatory discounting by the big supermarkets and online operators like Amazon (which have knocked over small bookshops by the hundred since the demise of the Net Book Agreement, the last hold-out of Resale price Maintenance a voluntary private arrangement which shaped British retail.(And manufacturing)<br />Stigler is producing more of the jeering right wing drivel, not even very high -class drivel.Attacking Charity Shops!How low can you go , as Chubby Checker said ? DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-87697837504359905302013-11-26T12:02:37.868+00:002013-11-26T12:02:37.868+00:00H, my sister once worked in the central "sort...H, my sister once worked in the central "sorting office" for a charity with a lot of shops, they put the donated stuff into piles - the better stuff went to the shop in the poshest area, the barely saleable junk went to the shop in the crappiest area.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-10819429356480491932013-11-26T12:00:25.310+00:002013-11-26T12:00:25.310+00:00Except, perhaps, the OXFAM shops which only sell b...Except, perhaps, the OXFAM shops which only sell books. The ones in Chiswick and Marylebone High Street seem virtually swanky.Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-73116818748267929912013-11-25T23:27:49.527+00:002013-11-25T23:27:49.527+00:00On my high street , I have seen real businesses be...On my high street , I have seen real businesses being ejected at the end of their lease to accommodate another charity shop willing to pay top dollar rent. It is true that they encourage footfall but them feet got no soles on their shoes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-91787184822742323302013-11-25T22:07:37.859+00:002013-11-25T22:07:37.859+00:00"TS, DEMOS will say anything provided you pay..."TS, DEMOS will say anything provided you pay 'em."<br /><br />Is this not the raison d'etre of all think tanks?Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-74268135848075626862013-11-25T20:28:46.979+00:002013-11-25T20:28:46.979+00:00TS, DEMOS will say anything provided you pay '...TS, DEMOS will say anything provided you pay 'em.<br /><br />Go to <a href="http://www.demos.co.uk/press_releases/charityshopsencouraginganationofgiverssaysthinktank" rel="nofollow">their site</a>…<br /><br /><i>"NOTES TO EDITORS<br /><br />The polling, conducted by Populus Data Solutions, interviewed 2,225 adults between 10-12 April 2013.<br /><br />The polling was carried out as part of a Demos project investigating charity shops aiming to measure the actual economic and social value they bring to communities. Further information on the project can be found here: http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/giveandtake <br /><br />The project is sponsored by The Charity Retail Association.</i>Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-66492874179288394442013-11-25T19:47:17.824+00:002013-11-25T19:47:17.824+00:00Typo - "it's worth nothing that places li...Typo - "it's worth nothing that places like The Oracle..."<br /><br />I agree with you about the middle class demand for gentrified shops. Gentrified and expensive.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-58671475440620685462013-11-25T19:39:27.975+00:002013-11-25T19:39:27.975+00:00Surely in general a proliferation of charity shops...Surely in general a proliferation of charity shops is a symptom of high street decline, not a cause.<br /><br />There was a good example of the tendency you describe in your final paragraph when certain people were aghast at Brandon Lewis' suggestion that McDonalds and Burger King were good for high streets.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-50903680078481999702013-11-25T19:08:23.598+00:002013-11-25T19:08:23.598+00:00A couple of questions.
charity shops do not pay ...A couple of questions.<br /><br /><br />charity shops do not pay for their stock or their employees so is it not the case that they stop the price of high street rents falling to where other commerce could operate<br /><br /><br />and more importantly charity shops are called charity shops but is that a correct noun as the landlord takes the larger share of retail so is it true that charity shops pay lower rents.<br /><br />as I said questions<br />Dinerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14632385731642361211noreply@blogger.com