Ironmongers in Sandwich becomes last shop in town to end tradition of early closing days
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00:00Yes, so we traditionally shut at one o'clock on a Wednesday, which we have done for quite
00:05a few years now.
00:06Deal had their market on Wednesdays and Sandwich had theirs on Thursdays, so quite a few of
00:14the trades people used to close early on a Wednesday to take advantage of the market
00:19in Deal.
00:20And I believe vice versa as well, I'm not sure if Deal still does it, it's sort of one
00:24of those things that has kind of gone out of fashion I suppose.
00:28We'd like to be more open for the Sandwich people, there are still quite a few people
00:32that we hear quite a lot that they're not quite used to us still being shut on a Wednesday
00:37afternoon and it means then that we are able to provide the service for more people.
00:43We have found that the footfall has started to go up, people are sort of doing DIY themselves
00:50a little bit more often now and we have seen an upsurge in demand for the services that
00:55we offer.