Author Topic: Everything to do with Shops  (Read 636312 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mull

  • Management board member
  • *
  • Posts: 742
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #525 on: August 11, 2012, 10:02:15 am »
Stead & Simpson also shut in Oban.
Same all over the country there is no way shops without parking can compete when you have got so many supermarkets in the area(Coop,Tesco,Aldi Aros,Lidl,Homebase,Pets at Home and others).
Councils need to get a grip on this. It so easy shopping with a trolley and not having to worry about Traffic Wardens.

How about converting Mostyn Street to a supermarket syle shopping experience with trolley parks and the road given over to car parking.I know there would be problems with this but i am sure there are enough clever people on the council to make a scheme like this work.
We can not just sit back and do nothing.

Offline Ian

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 8948
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #526 on: August 11, 2012, 02:56:49 pm »
Quote
How about converting Mostyn Street to a supermarket syle shopping experience with trolley parks and the road given over to car parking

It was mooted 25 years ago, but the local  shops said it would the death of Mostyn Street. Fairly typical reaction.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.


Offline Yorkie

  • Member
  • Posts: 5255
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #527 on: August 11, 2012, 03:37:39 pm »
Quote
How about converting Mostyn Street to a supermarket syle shopping experience with trolley parks and the road given over to car parking

It was mooted 25 years ago, but the local  shops said it would the death of Mostyn Street. Fairly typical reaction.

Convert Mostyn Street and the next thing you will see is a Super Walmart on the horizon, where they sell anything and everything!   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart

 ;)
Wise men have something to say.
Fools have to say something.
Cicero

Offline SDQ

  • Ad Free Member
  • *
  • Posts: 990
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #528 on: August 11, 2012, 10:15:46 pm »
Quote
How about converting Mostyn Street to a supermarket syle shopping experience with trolley parks and the road given over to car parking

It was mooted 25 years ago, but the local  shops said it would the death of Mostyn Street. Fairly typical reaction.

Convert Mostyn Street and the next thing you will see is a Super Walmart on the horizon, where they sell anything and everything!   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart

 ;)


We already have a Walmart in Llandudno
Valar Morghulis

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #529 on: August 11, 2012, 10:20:01 pm »
Llandudno has one of the lowest levels of empty shops of any town in Wales. The Welsh average is 18.3%, Llandudno is 7.3%, according to Mostyn Estates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16923180
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2012/02/09/empty-shops-report-is-rubbish-says-llandudno-landowner-55243-30292158/

Offline Yorkie

  • Member
  • Posts: 5255
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #530 on: August 12, 2012, 07:15:58 am »

We already have a Walmart in Llandudno

You mean ASDA of course! 
I'm talking about a REAL WALMART, where you can buy anything from a can of beans to a speedboat in the same store!  And it is still owned by the same family that started it!
 D)
Wise men have something to say.
Fools have to say something.
Cicero

Offline Bri Roberts

  • Management board member
  • *
  • Posts: 3097
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #531 on: August 14, 2012, 02:34:15 pm »
Stead and Simpson certainly looks as though it is closing down. Shoes are reduced down to rock bottom.

Apparently, 220 Stead & Simpson stores were rescued from administration in January 2008 by Shoe Zone.

Shoe Zone is next door in Llandudno and the two shops will merge.

Offline Nemesis

  • Management board member
  • *
  • Posts: 6276
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #532 on: August 15, 2012, 06:20:28 pm »
Fortes is between Shoe Zone and Stead and Simpson-- that will be an interesting merger !

Work going on at Diskos old shop again today.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know.

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #533 on: August 16, 2012, 04:37:06 pm »
Old Diskos shop is to be Little Poppets Babywear Shop.

Offline Pendragon

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 2927
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #534 on: August 16, 2012, 06:03:51 pm »
The old Mooch shop on Bangor road (the old Butchers) is to re--open as Conwy Fine Antiques.


Only hindsight has 20/20 vision
Angiegram - A romantic notion derived from the more mundane truth.

Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

Offline Fester

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 6660
  • El Baldito
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #535 on: August 16, 2012, 08:44:57 pm »
Old Diskos shop is to be Little Poppets Babywear Shop.

I wish them all the best, but I fear the worst for that idea.... given the demise of Mothercare and other brands due to the proliferation of cheap childrenswear in supermarkets these days.
Fester...
- Semper in Excretum, Sole Profundum Variat -

Offline DaveR

  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13712
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #536 on: August 22, 2012, 10:58:11 pm »
HSS is all shuttered now. Wonder what it will be used for next, it's a pretty big building.

Offline dwsi

  • Member
  • Posts: 713
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #537 on: August 22, 2012, 11:24:20 pm »
My money is on another coffee shop  ;D

Offline Fester

  • Ad Free Member.
  • *
  • Posts: 6660
  • El Baldito
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #538 on: August 23, 2012, 12:34:32 am »
Indeed, HSS Tool Hire has a very large warehouse space to the rear.  It looks like it must have been an old garage in the past, for buses or trucks maybe?  Or plenty room for an auto repairs or tyre fitters.  (the like of Kwikfit)
It's massive anyway.

Now maybe it could be an auction rooms?  A carpet warehouse?

Fester...
- Semper in Excretum, Sole Profundum Variat -

Offline Bri Roberts

  • Management board member
  • *
  • Posts: 3097
Re: Everything to do with Shops
« Reply #539 on: August 23, 2012, 07:23:28 am »
Fester, it used to be Bootes on Broadway which was a furniture and carpet shop.

Before that, wasn’t it the MANWEB office?

Anyway, I notice the workmen are back in the new American Disaster Restaurant in Mostyn Street.

However, there appears to be still a lot of work to be done inside before it is completed.