Last Ham Standing

[llamedos]

People are lazy, they shop where the car will get them closest to the door, the supermarket gets the car parking the little town wants/needs, it also generally has to pay for other local schemes, road alterations to allow deliveries, cash to schools etc, it also emplys a vast ammount of local people.
Areas that generally have a high population of older folk who dont drive and have worked hard all their lives and dont mind walking and still do, still have whats left of village high street shops.
We only have Asda and Aldi, Aldi been here 25 yrs Asda about 4 both have inhouse direct phones to local taxi rank, local shops now advertise they will phone a taxi for you now they soon cottoned on to this, and it has helped keep some shoppers, one or two will also let you leave your bags in shop so you can use them as last place to get your taxi home. Local shops have to work together to keep custom.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I was wet and windy morning, I stops on a single yellow while wife runs into a shop, hitler taps on my window,'move on or I'll book you', I ain't lazy just like churns are a thing of the past

 

[JD-Kid]

Wouldn't it be wonderfull if we still had churns and we could all make a living with 10 on the stand,

yea right up there with a dose of the clap and wearing a floursack .. like an old guy said i recall the old days they were 5hit ..

strange thing is in the days of churns etc farmers were not shopping at butchers doing there own have there own garden wife at home bakeing bread sewing etc had there own pigs brought a cut up beefy of the bloke next door or the house cows calf the odd hogget swaped for grain or a few days work stacking bags

were there shops yes there was but mainly used by towns folk

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Yes no farmers want the past back but seem to want to shop in the past just like they all buy British,