What shop do you not have in your town that everyone else has?

[craftysnake]

Asda
Morrisons
wilkos RIP

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Oh I missed the word ‘shop’ in your title 😄

We don’t have a KFC either, which is Strange

Uniqlo is so strange that it has so a few stores

No Morrisons here either. For years we had no Primark but have just recently got one. No Zara.

I think we'll see a reversal of the recent town centre model.

Big old buildings like Debenhams and empty office blocks will be turned into flats.

There will be little Tescos Express/ Sains Local/ 'Little Waitrose' shops dotted about for the flat-dwellers to pick up a few provisions but people will shop online for Amazon/ bigger supermarket shops/ clothes etc.

Out of town retail parks with ample parking will have the big bricks and mortar stores and to showcase bigger items like furniture etc.

Instead of living out of town and coming in to 'market' people will live in town and drive out.

I live in a small town with one main road through. We have 5 pubs, 3 antique type shops, 4 hair dressers, 2 barbers, 3 charity shops, 2 book shops, 3 coffee shops, 3 take aways (chippy, chinese and pizza/kebab), spar, Co op and boots. We get a lot of visitors from out of area as its a riverside location. Yet there are no gifty type shops.
No chance you'll go hungry or thirsty here.

Ours is much the same, with the addition of Budgens and Greggs. There is a tiny Morrisons convenience store but their prices are sky high and they don't take Morrison's cards.
Nearest Tescos, Lidl etc. 20 miles away.

I live in a very small town. We have a lovely vibrant old fashioned type of high street. No Greggs (fab proper bakers though), No Costa/Starbucks/big chain coffee (independant and one small local chain), no daytime fast food, and no chicken shop

M&S - there wasn’t one even in the days when the high street was thriving and there were several other department stores doing well.
Lidl

@GoForARun this exactly what is happening.

No Waitrose or booths in about a 50 mile radius.

On the other end of the spectrum, no home bargains cafes! I’ve see them loads of other places when we drive through them and I would love to know what they’re like.

Lots of barber shops, multiple takeways, betting shops, vape shops and three supermarkets. Not a lot else. The only place to buy clothes is the Original Factory shop. This is a wealthy Cotswolds area but it's dying. We used to have a lovely saturday market but that went.
The nearest bigger town has a Sainsburys and a small M+S and NEXT but so many shops are now empty because the rents are too high. Even the lovely toy shop which has been there for decades has just closed.
I am not a massive shopper but I like to Christmas shop in person, and it's just not possible any more.

Not high street but here in Norfolk we are 2.5 hours from the nearest IKEA.

Lots of supermarkets, unless you count those located on retail estates on the edge of the city - no Aldi, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose or M&S. We did recently get a Lidl though which is decent.

I mourn the loss of M&S most, we had a huge one with clothes, homeware and food on the main high street which was great and always had loads of reduced fancy food 🤣. Recently closed down and was replaced by some weird 'socially responsible' collective which basically means a load of stalls selling hugely overpriced organic cake and fair trade coffee and racks of essentially charity shop crap marketed as 'recycled' or 'vintage' and again ludicrously overpriced.

Thinking about it we don't have a Burger King either but have all the other fast food type places you'd expect. As a PP said, the main high street is now mostly charity shops, vape shops, Poundlands, Savers and similar.

Oh I missed the "what everyone else has" 😬
Nothing then I don't think.

I'm in mourning for John Lewis. I'm in Birmingham and we had a lovely big one in city centre and it closed down

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I don't think most of us have that.

My small seaside town is mostly independent shops/cafes/bakers/restaurants/pubs which zip love.
We do have a Costa, Greggs (NE England, it's the law), Subway, Holland and Barrett, Peacocks, Sainsbury's local, and all the usual estate agents and charity shops.
Newcastle is 20 mins away and has pretty much all the big chains except Zara, but there is on I'm the Metro Centre, which is about 30 mins by car.
Perfect mix.

Waitrose, John Lewis and Zara.
I think we can manage without those though. We have no Wilko but thought they had closed all their stores.
We have The Range which sells lots of Wilko stuff.

Our retail parks and large supermarkets also surround the town centre and have their own car parks; shoppers use those and the town centre as well.
Public transport from surrounding towns and nearby city is excellent too. On market days the town centre is crowded as people travel from quite a distance and patronise other shops as well as the market.

Most other nearby town centres have gone downhill recently, which has benefitted ours and seems to ensure ours stays busy. Leisure facilities such as a theatre, restaurants, bowling, cinema and lots of bars and traditional pubs also draw people in during the evenings; so it is busy all the time. Our town centre is one of the main reasons I moved here.

Small, ‘quaint’, touristy city. We have most things but the independents are being forced out. I really miss Wilko. The main shop I would love would be a John Lewis. The nearest is over 100 miles away, but we can get things delivered to Waitrose.

Ooh and a Nando’s would be nice.

our nearest post office is miles away (about 12) and hardly ever any free parking nearby - frustrating when I have packets to send (birthdays and Christmas) but OK to buy stamps at supermarket of course (which is at least 5 miles away) and I do miss an Aldi!

I live in a village with NO shop 💀 we have to drive 7 minutes each way just to get milk. Would be 50 mins walk each way so no choice but to drive. I don’t know how people live here without a car!

Apart from supermarkets, pretty much all of them