Have to say, the refurb which merged PCW and Currys (into the PCW store with added mezzanine), and general re-design, etc., has made the place at least bearable.
Gone is the "must be made to feel like a crim and push your way through tills to get out". Much more obvious variety of goods - and less of "this stand has five thousand empty boxes of MS Word".
Also gone is the need to check both shops for things that might have been in one, or the other, or both.
Still very low on my list of shops, but very much better.
Superdrug ? part of the A.S. Watson Group which in turn is part of the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa ? is a UK-based company with 900 stores, which since 2006, includes the Republic of Ireland ...
Agreed - it looks a lot healthier (and better backed) than I had realised. Had done a mental walk through shopping centre wondering who was vulnerable.
Well, also assuming we are part of their target demographic. A lot of them seem to be shops which were better closed, IMNHO. (Clothes shops, for example. And "Past Times".)
I used to wait till after Xmas when they were selling off old stick fr peanuts and buy really nice fair isle jumpers and patterned silk ties for less than they cost anywhere else. But it was overpriced tat mainly.
Since the Cambridge councillors decided that Cambridge was to be essentially a car free zone, I haven't been back to do shopping there anyway. The independent camera shops have gone: the bookshops haven't but its cheaper to buy online. The clothes shops are now crap and I can buy better stuff elsewhere.
There simply is no reason to go shopping there compared with other towns with less anti-car policies..
And that is another part of the equation. Trendy green liberal lefty councils who answer at best only to inhabitants of these market towns, force through 'pedestrian and cycle' friendly policies to the point where anyone from the natural hinterland - within a radius of 20 miles - simply finds it too expensive and too onerous to actually go into town centres. At best a retail park with free parking NOT provided by the council is a better deal.
Its the old old story of stupidity and incompetence and political expediency achieving exactly the opposite effect to the intended one.
Round here the hunt has never been more popular. Its regarded as such an insult to ban hunting that everyone turns out to follow it. Left alone it might have died a natural death. Now its a rallying point for the anti-socialists.
Trying to make towns 'people friendly' by making them 'car unfriendly' simply means the people cant get in unless they live there.
People on cam.misc seem to think that no one can possibly NOT ride a bicycle, or need public transport at 1 a.m. or have any shopping needs beyond a bag of organic beansprouts and therefore need not use a car.
Such a parochial attitude will have its consequences.
NothingNowhere are closing 78 of the Orange/T-Mobile shops that are next door to each other, all of which they pointlessly refurbished with the new branding ...
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