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[Rods2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529456/How-one-high-street-Britain-looked-125-years-ago.html

[chrisgixer]

Those where the days.

[pscocoa]

Great photos. Tough times but produced very different sense of community I suspect.

[2boxerdogs]

Great photos, in the late fifties when I lived in South London I can remember 1 or 2 shoe/clothes shops looking like that, in fact the clothes shop remained like it into the seventies, when the last family member died.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A great look at a piece of historical culture

Market forces, or more correctly what the people want, have shaped the shopping experience for centuries, with industrialisation and the rise of the consumer en mass creating what we have today.

Now, with the age of the internet the high streets, and out of town shopping malls, are again undergoing a dramatic change.  Progress stops for no-one, although we together create it!

[omega3000]

Supermarkets have got a lot to answer for the closure of our local high street shops  Great photo's there  Then the shot at the bottom of greed/shoving and pushing in oxford street . Sad 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Supermarkets have got a lot to answer for the closure of our local high street shops  Great photo's there  Then the shot at the bottom of greed/shoving and pushing in oxford street . Sad 

But it is you and me plus almost everyone else who has produced the rise of the supermarkets Emd. Price, multiple choice and convenience has made it all too easy!

[Andy B]

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But it is you and me plus almost everyone else who has produced the rise of the supermarkets Emd. Price, multiple choice and convenience has made it all too easy!

But just how many of your favourite supermarket do we need? They're both out of town and on the high street where our corner shops used to be. Our corner shop did door-step deliveries years before the big supermarkets did ...... in a cardboard box left on the step. 

[omega3000]

I recall the local shop use to deliver us fresh bread in an old Morris minor van and the fizzy pop van use to call as well , with the few shops that remain you can at least have a natter and not be pushed and shoved around like in the supermarkets . Just give me fresh bread/butter/milk and a cupboard full of Heinz beanz 

[Rods2]

Many people complain about supermarkets, but we all tend to use them as they are a quicker more convenient way to shop.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

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But it is you and me plus almost everyone else who has produced the rise of the supermarkets Emd. Price, multiple choice and convenience has made it all too easy!

But just how many of your favourite supermarket do we need? They're both out of town and on the high street where our corner shops used to be. Our corner shop did door-step deliveries years before the big supermarkets did ...... in a cardboard box left on the step. 

The market will always decide how many supermarkets we need, and already over the last 40 years many chains that could not compete have gone.  The strongest will always survive, and since the landmark abolishion of RPM (Retail Price Maintenance) at the start of the 1970's, who has provided the best products at the best price, presented to the customer in the best way has lasted the course.  Now these very same companies have become right up to date by providing on-line services so they not only deliver to your door, but you don't even have to go out of that front door to place the order! Who out of the great Joe Public care about the rest of the surviving local shops closing down by not going with the majority of the market and shopping in the manner of 21st century shopping?  Even Morrison's almost caught a cold recently by not recognising the new power of on-line shopping.

The days of Arkwrights on the street corner have long gone, being overtaken by the convenience stores that the big national chains are now deciding to develop to really secure their market share. Who is creating this trend; once more WE are!

[Varche]

Excellent .