Skegness Continental Market continues to divide opinion in Skegness, with customers loving it and businesses saying it is taking trade away from them at what should be a peak time for them.
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00:00 We're at the Continental Market in Skegness where two local residents have just been having
00:11 a look. What's on sale? Now what have you been buying? Canolis, burritos, tacos, and
00:23 some noodles. We've got a little bit of everything to take home. You sound like you're going
00:27 to have a real party with that. This is the second time we've come in. We came yesterday.
00:32 Oh right, so you must be really enjoying it. Now it is dividing opinion. Customers have
00:41 commented on our articles that they like it, that it's something different in the town.
00:47 They wish the whole of Lumley Road was closed off like last year when there was music. But
00:53 then some of the businesses are upset because they've had a bit of a tough time so far with
00:58 the weather and they think that some of the set stores are selling things very similar
01:03 to theirs. What do you think to the market? Well we still support all the local businesses
01:08 because we do live here but I just think there's stuff here that we can't get from our local
01:12 businesses. They don't do this kind of food because it's a little bit of everything and
01:16 you can't get that here, not on a daily basis. Would you like to see more of this? Yeah,
01:21 I'd love to see more of it. We look forward to this every year. Now we're with Billy who
01:27 rents a pitch outside Bar 128 in Lumley Road. What do you think to the market? It's not
01:34 too bad. It does take away custom though because with the pitch being on the road they seem
01:38 to walk over the road now as they're on the path. So it spreads it out a bit so we haven't
01:42 took as much as we normally have. So yeah it does affect us selling as a pitch.
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