To be disappointed that we now have a Bright House store on our high street?

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Perhaps the final nail in the coffin.

The have also built a YMCA homeless hostel and the people there spend a lot of their time harassing and shouting at passers by. We can no longer make it to the supermarket due to being harassed.

We used to have a nice high street, but it's just full of scruffy thrift stores and charity shops now.

I know there's a recession on and we do like to visit thrift stores sometimes, but don't want an entire street to decline like this.

Our street is so crap even Bon Marche have left

Why do you think people end up homeless, or spend most of the day out of their head on drink or drugs?

Brighthouse are utter, utter scum

They're running a business. They charge high rates of interest because so many of their customers do a runner and they end up selling on the debt at 10% of it's value.

have been with bh for awhile,never had any problems with them,companys like this have been around for many years,have seen much worse tbh.

I don't hate the people who use Bright House, I don't like how they rip people off.

Olympia, just because they're homeless doesn't give them the right to abuse people who are just going along the street. The people outside the supermarket aren't homeless, they are just hanging around looking for trouble.

they dont rip people off,you know you pay more when you go in,i know of peole you have ripped them off by doing a runner and not paying.

What is Brighthouse?

It sounds like you don't relaly support the local shops doing the big shopping at a supermarket.

Their pricing system

Our Brighthouse used to be an Ethel Austin.

Hmmmm the high street is in decline BECAUSE you are going to the supermarket
Yabu

The supermarket in question is at the bottom of the high street. We also use the other high street shops, but a lot of them have closed down.

It's hire-purchase. You to a store and pick a fridge or a tv or a bed and they deliver it to you. You pay them x amount per week for it. They lend to people without credit checks - they target people who can't get credit/loans . They charge huge mark ups on products and get away with it (see link above) and that's before interest and insurance. They also encourage people to upgrade/'buy' more than they can afford to. Then, when they can't pay, all the stuff is repossessed.

Poor people need to use brighthouse..... Poor people need things. Sometimes it's the only way

Zukiecat, did the council give you a completely unfurnished place without even white goods? I've heard of them doing that to people in situations similar to yours. It's idiotic of them. It would make much more sense to give you a lump sum to furnish the place (even if they took it back at eg£5/week.)

Hiddenhome think I live in the same town and I agree with you! I saw the announcement in the local free paper and thought exactly the same. We have no where we can even buy a decent birthday present without getting in a car to travel to the nearest shopping centre. Thankfully I am at the other end of the 'street' to have encountered problems with the hostel but know others have had similar experiences to yourself.

We live in a very small traditional town and it is a shame that it seems to be decaying around us

I agree at the decline of the high street is depressing, it's getting worse than the 80's.

Brighthouse allow to much credit, that is my only complaint about them. I work in welfare rights, voluntarily and i go through budgeting, the level that brighthouse has allowed people with MH problems to borrow to, is wrong.

But it is part of a bigger problem,one being the lackof social fund loans and SW getting involved with benefits.

If people were more prepared to accept used stuff instead of wanting everything new, Brighthouse would go out of business.

are you in the NE Jakadaal?

They're parasites on the poor. The government, and previous ones, need their collective arses kicking for allowing them to operate the way they do.

yes I amhidden am certain we live in the same town [waves]

I often wonder why they are allowed. The BHF charity shop does TV/furniture etc. But as Denise says people want new for some reason.

There is another thread about designer baby clothes, we need people spending money in the high street shops.

Thank the lord you have cars to get to the supermarket?!

What about the poor people who have to walk

It's ok for them to be spat on cos they can't afford a car?