Village shop under threat
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Village shop under threat
by GD on Fri 04 Jul 2008, 6:37 pm
It's closing time for a shop and post office in Jersey - much to the distress of some of its more elderly customers. With just a few weeks notice given, the R-Store in Maufant will close its doors on Saturday for the last time.
The shop means more to many than just convenience. It's a lifeline. A vital facility in a heavily residential area, where the elderly can collect their pensions, their essentials, meet with friends and interact with staff. But just a few weeks ago they were told that as of tomorrow, the lifeline would be gone for good.
It's been said that the impact of a new supermarket at Five Oaks has hit profits, and that the owners want to sell the site to property developers. If that happened Eclipse Hair Design could be faced with the prospect of a building site literally on its doorstep, something they're unsurprisingly opposed to. Vera Moody is 80 years old, and she says it's no use saying that parishioners can just go elsewhere.
"That's fine if you've got other transport but I mean not everybody has transport. Most of the people who live in the village just walk. I find it a tremendous loss as far as we're concerned."
Channel Television can reveal that the Co-op are one of the parties who are expressing a keen interest in taking on the site and are expected to announce a decision early next week. As for the post office, it's due to to closed on September 13th. But, if it re-opens as a shop they plan to keep the post office open.
If not, pensioners will be given coffee mornings on Fridays and in the afternoons on Thursdays at the nearby local youth centre, where they can collect their pensions, relax and even use the internet. There'll still be no post office, but they are looking in to the possibility of a mobile post office van. (from CIonline)
It is a shame that the "little" shops are closing but the "Big Guys" have sealed thier future...
The shop means more to many than just convenience. It's a lifeline. A vital facility in a heavily residential area, where the elderly can collect their pensions, their essentials, meet with friends and interact with staff. But just a few weeks ago they were told that as of tomorrow, the lifeline would be gone for good.
It's been said that the impact of a new supermarket at Five Oaks has hit profits, and that the owners want to sell the site to property developers. If that happened Eclipse Hair Design could be faced with the prospect of a building site literally on its doorstep, something they're unsurprisingly opposed to. Vera Moody is 80 years old, and she says it's no use saying that parishioners can just go elsewhere.
"That's fine if you've got other transport but I mean not everybody has transport. Most of the people who live in the village just walk. I find it a tremendous loss as far as we're concerned."
Channel Television can reveal that the Co-op are one of the parties who are expressing a keen interest in taking on the site and are expected to announce a decision early next week. As for the post office, it's due to to closed on September 13th. But, if it re-opens as a shop they plan to keep the post office open.
If not, pensioners will be given coffee mornings on Fridays and in the afternoons on Thursdays at the nearby local youth centre, where they can collect their pensions, relax and even use the internet. There'll still be no post office, but they are looking in to the possibility of a mobile post office van. (from CIonline)
It is a shame that the "little" shops are closing but the "Big Guys" have sealed thier future...
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Re: Village shop under threat
by Pegasus on Fri 04 Jul 2008, 10:38 pm
Bring back the corner shop I say, used to be the social meeting aera, not like today in the Supermarkets, nobody got time for anybody.
Re: Village shop under threat
by David Rotherham on Sat 05 Jul 2008, 4:25 am
If enough customers vote with their feet in favour of supermarket runs, then corner shops are no longer viable, however much the loyal remainder of customers miss them.
I ran a corner shop in that area a few years ago, just as the big Checkers at Longueville was getting going, and got my fingers well burned.
I ran a corner shop in that area a few years ago, just as the big Checkers at Longueville was getting going, and got my fingers well burned.
