New shopping centre has ‘hit town’s trade’
Wednesday 29th July 2009, 10:10AM BST.
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When are they going to realise it’s not just the fact that people from Wrexham don’t shop in Oswestry it’s also people from Oswestry that don’t shop in Oswestry anymore. Even the new Morrisons has been slated by everyone I speak to because it is so much smaller than Shrewsbury’s store so has less choice. Building a DECENT sized supermarket in Oswestry may actually save our town centre – if the planners bother to look at the bigger picture.
Oswestry residents live and work here but we spend our money elsewhere in neighbouring towns. Oswestry will soon be regarded a commuter town.
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Come on you OSWESTRY residents get off your backsides,and tell these people that you actually DO want a descent sized supermarket!!!!
Sainsbury’s is too SMALL and so is the new Morrisons.
We are sick of this gilksman saying what he doe’nt want.
So i will say what we DO want and that is a NEW supermarket built in oswestry.
They say a new supermarket will kill the town,
But osewestry is already dead!!!
So come on lets have a new supermarket, and dont listen to gilksman?
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How much intelligence does it take to realize that ANY superstore brings economic death to any small business, as unfair bulk buying trading will undercut any small business.
Those so-called “Planners” who permit huge Supermarkets to be built have only themselves to blame when all the small traders vanish.
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Jet – it’s known as progress. Some may not like it but you have to move on or get left behind. People in Oswestry already shop in Wrexham and Shrewsbury so our money is being pumped into neighbouring towns which has to be a bad thing doesn’t it? Our local shops are already struggling or closing down. If they had any sense they would embrace a new superstore that would attract out of town shoppers. The proposal on the Smithfield actually included additional units which our local shops could buy and get more business off the back of out of town shoppers.
If we don’t move on Oswestry will be full of houses and nothing else and we will all HAVE to travel to shop, work and socialise.
Or maybe we should ban cars from the town centre and all travel by horse and cart as us Oswestrians really do not like progress and change.
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