Wickes on Moore Street in Sheffield City Centre is closing on August 13. The Star asked customers how will they be affected by the DIY and trade store's closure.
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00:00Thank you, it's Alistair from Sheffield Star and we're down here speaking to people outside
00:03the Wicks here because it might be closing on August 16th. I don't know if it's a big
00:06inconvenience to you or not? It is an inconvenience because we're just across the way and so it's
00:12really convenient for us where the other side is out-centred if we need to go to the Wicks.
00:18Your logo here says you do tyres of course. Yeah, tyres and we also do building work as
00:22well. Oh bless you. Two different businesses. We've had rumour either between it could be
00:28development or it could just be because of the clean air zone that was introduced about
00:32a year ago. Staff inside say that business dropped like a stone after that when it happened,
00:378th February 2023. I don't know what your thoughts on that are? Yeah, I can totally
00:43appreciate how it would affect them because obviously we've got a modest trade business
00:47as well and we lost a big chunk of trade. All the white commercial vehicles, the older
00:55sort of stopped coming. Why would you pay to go into a place when you get somewhere more
01:00convenient? Do you know what you'll do or where you'll go now if this place closes down?
01:05Yeah, broken road. It's two more miles away I think it is is the next one so we'll see what
01:11comes. Right. Yeah, it's particularly good because I don't come to Sheffield often.
01:16I'm not from the area born and raised and this is the only car park I know that's free
01:21and that I can actually get a parking space without having to pay £5 a day. So I'm a little
01:26bit disappointed really because it's really useful. I don't, I wouldn't mind paying either
01:30but it's a shame it's not going to be here. There's not even the DOI store there's like
01:34another one in Sheffield somewhere I think. This one is supposedly because it's inside the clean
01:38air zone has killed a lot of business but that's just a rumour people are saying. I don't know
01:41what people think of that. I don't, I don't know about the clean air zone yet. I've heard it's
01:45coming, well I'm really, I couldn't say either or. That's understandable, that's all right. Yeah,
01:51it's a shame, it's a shame. Would you say you come here very often or is it just like only when?
01:55Every now and then when I was looking for a parking space and this is the only car park I could find
02:00so I just run round to the back round and I know, I know friends use it so I,
02:05it's, I don't know about the park. Best kept secret. Right, let's see. That'll do it.