Bristolians Answer: As Boots marks its 175th birthday- are locals worried about the future of the high street?
Bristolians Answer: As Boots marks its 175th birthday- are locals worried about the future of the high street? Why has boots survived so long and other retailers have not?
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00:00 Well, I don't think it's got so much to do with the cost of living. It's just the game
00:05 of mad planners who give you Cribbs Causeway and Eastgate Centre, which is drawing all
00:14 the shoppers away from local shops, with free parking of course, and of course the internet,
00:20 the Amazon and all the rest of it. So the day of the small shopper, I'm afraid, may
00:25 well be over.
00:26 At Bemminster, they used to have nice shops down there, but now it's nothing down there.
00:34 So they've put it into flats, I think.
00:36 The chemist, like the one just behind me here, has affected, if anything, it's affected me
00:44 more than anything else.
00:45 I don't really know. It's got all the shops around here. So, yeah, and I do my shopping,
00:52 shopping as does. If I've got to get a few things, I'll just go in the co-op.