Now am I not surprised that your into selling cheap rubbish Duke. What business sense the small businessman has or at least as represented by Duke.
Duke I can only speak of the small business's I use in Marple, the Bike Shop provided excellent service and is a loss. Paul Jones the builder is outstanding both recognise that the customer comes first and also provide an excellent product. You seel to have a different approach.
I was under the impression you dislike all businesses.
I'm of the opinion that the best businesses sell what their customer demands. That can be very much the demand for cheap rubbish. I sused John Lewis as an example as most of us associate them with a little quality but i had th emisfortune to visit for the sale and realised they ship in a whole load of cheap rubbish under the banner of 'clearance' and of course people were buying it.
Given that the Bike Shop was a 2nd outlet for the Wills, the previous poster wondered why they needed a closing down sale at all when the obvious thing woul dbe to simply move stock back to Heaton Chapel. I was only looking for logical answers, i.e. perhaps they were getting rid of real redundant stock and using the interest created by a closing down sale to move that stock on.
I'm sorry if you got the wrong end of the stick but i was under the impression that you had only used the shop to make the most of the closing down bargains as opposed to being a regular customer.
There is of course a serious point, the shop should have done well as Marple enjoys a good number of cyclists and cycling visitors but I'm guessing the numbers simply didn't to it for them. When a shop that was highly regarded cannot compete, it's time to look at the additional and unsessary costs that are heaped onto a retailer and give the retailers a helping hand.
