It's not too long ago that the brand new, very expensive shopping centre opened and within a few months a couple of prestigious stores had gone into liquidation.
The older shopping area has also succumbed to the same fate. Over a period of time quite a lot of shops have been left empty all around the original shopping area, some of their windows just have enormous posters telling everyone that they have moved to the new shopping centre and others have disappeared completely.
This disease doesn't affect small independent businesses as they were all priced out by the multiples many years ago, these are large well known stores which are part of huge national chains.
The latest victim to be covered in 'closing down' posters is the 'Faith' shoe shop. However, I can't say I'm really that surprised as I have never been able to fathom how anyone could walk in their shoes. In my younger days I could walk fairly elegantly in three inch stilletos with a pencil skirt and I could also stand up very straight too, but I have seen quite a lot of youngsters wearing the type of shoes sold in this (and other) shoe shops but they wobble along with their bottoms sticking out behind because they are unable to stand upright. Perhaps they have been too used to slopping around in those awful 'Ugh' boots for too long.
I shall wait to see what (if any) shop will open after this one has gone. What we need is a shop that sells good quality, comfortable shoes that don't cost the earth and that ladies of a certain age, like myself, can walk in. We don't do high fashion - we've got more taste than that!
I hear you grandma. Surprisingly, the most comfortable shoes I own are those rubber or plastic garden clogs you find at discount stores. Some are mules and some have that sling back. They wash well too. I don't know what I'd do without them.
ReplyDeleteI have a pair of those too. Mine are called Crocs (a bit like me)! I used to have a pair of very clumpy black lace-ups that cost me £50 from Marks & Spencer about 1996 and they had really thick soles (like tractor tyres). They were the most comfortable shoes ever but Eden made me throw them out when I retired last year because she said they smelled despite the shoe freshener.
ReplyDeleteI told her there were years of wear left in them but she wouldn't listen!