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 Save the High Street - Robin O'Reliant
The demise of the traditional High Street in favour of edge of town retail parks and online ordering is the best thing that has happened to shopping in recent decades.

Who the hell wants to go back to a time when you had to spend nearly all day trudging from one little shop to another, laden with bags and having to deal with shop keepers who varied from excellent to ignorant psychopaths. I still remember the misery of being dragged round with my mother when I was a nipper, both of us short of temper as she hated it as much as I and everybody else did. Now you can pull up at your local retail park, get your weeks groceries and your new telly next door to one and other or even from the same shop and walk a few yards to load them in your car in the free car park.

The High Street has become a place to have a coffee and a sandwich and browse the smaller shops who still provide those goods and services for which there is a demand but does not suit the business model of the big guys.

And thank God for that.
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