Hi Amazon, I'm really not sure why you think Marple is 'heading for a ghost town'? 3 shops does not make a ghost town!
Consider all the shops that have opened in the last year or so & are doing well:
The Zipyard, Claudio's, La Petite Maison, The Linen Room, the electricians on Stockport Road. There is a mobile phone shop just opened on Derby Way & I've heard that 'The Attic' has finally been sold & will be a shop. There is work being carried out in 'Mulligans' & it's looking very smart.
Have you been in Marple on weekdays? Tried to get a table in All Things Nice? Queued at either of the butchers? Or even been in my shop? Marple is far from quiet!
In fact we are busier than we've ever been!
It would be really nice to hear good things about Marple shops rather than negative for a change!
Quite right, Stationery Supplies.
Many of the shops which have closed in recent years have done so because the proprietors fell ill, died or retired. Other businesses folded because the proprietors didn't know what they were doing and in some cases didn't do their homework properly beforehand. And as for the dress agency mentioned by Amazon, when they featured second-hand products in their window at twice the price they cost new, one has to wonder what they thought they were doing.
If Marple is "dead" during the day why is it frequently difficult to find a parking place?
"All Things Nice" is moving to bigger premises - they wouldn't be doing that if the footfall in Marple was as poor as Amazon thinks it is. You can buy practically anything you need in Marple from a car to a bar of chocolate. And as for supermarkets, I recently traipsed round Tesco (Glossop), Morrisons (Hyde), Aldi (Hazel Grove) and Sainsbury's (Stepping Hill) in a fruitless search for a rather exotic foodstuff that I eventually found in the health food shop in Marple (and the price was reasonable too)! We have doctors, dentists, chiropodists, more hairdressers and beauticians than you can shake a stick at and you could drown an elephant in the volume of coffee sold on an average day.
And don't knock the charity shops. I'm clearing two houses at the moment and I'd be lost without the one near the Co-op which is the only one I can park outside.
