The new British high street: bookies, brokers and pound shops

In our town the shops in order of quantity are:-
1. Coffee shops, take aways, pubs and restaurants (these make up at least half of the shops in the town)
2. Hairdressers, Barbers and beauty salons
3. Estate agents
4. Banks, Building societies and Financial Management Firms
5. Charity shops
6. Bookies
7. Undertakers!

Not many small independent shops left now!

DoH? That's because in a recession these businesses ripp off the poor , when the only light at the end of the tunnel for some who are struggling to pay bills is :
1. sell off their valuables
2. borrow from loan sharks
3. gamble
4. crime
This has happened because of Greedy banks, lend out money when they know they can make lots of money, and then withdraw the help when they are not making any either. And then the government bail them out at the cost of the tax payer so the banks never lose out.

face the facts , all major supermarkets are a rip of , xmas , easter , halloween and bonfire night they rip the public of because children are involved and people spend money without thinking , pound shop same price all year , pound shops are even cheaper than charity shops that have now gone sky high . one item that stuck in the pound shop was a smoked sausage , it was £2-45 in asda , that is a big price difference , and there is lots more some easter eggs are £4 more in the supermarkets , people are starting to go to more than one shop now it may be convenient to get everything in one shop but its not cheaper any more .

The reappearance of the pawnbroker (almost extinct in my '50s/60s youth) began in the '90s, and so cannot be attributed to the 2008 crash. Pound shops are increasing but they too started well before the crash, not only in the UK, (and, indeed, at its advent, what was the now extinct Woolworths but a pound shop - except that pence were then worth almost what a pound is today). Traditional street-markets have also started to sell fruit and veg in pound lots - declining educational standards and arithmetical skills in the populace perhaps? (this I have not remarked abroad). Local observation suggests many more pound-shops than stated before 2009 and a slower increase, my fairly wealthy town of some 30,000 inhabitants already had 2 in 2009 and is now about to get its third.

There's NOTHING alarming about the rise in pound shops! Thank goodness for pound shops I say. They are a God send as far as I am concerned. My husband and I are both on minimum wage and are struggling to make ends meet like most other folks these days. We are so grateful for pound shops.

the goverment,s were well warned about our high streets,,,,when they were deciding planning aplications for supermarkets but they were ignored ,,,,,local council have no brains about business what so ever,in fact they have growing like the supermarkets ,another strain on the taxpayer, but it will never change

dont forget charity shops and mobile phone shops to how many ???, city centres in the UK are becoming very boring really boring infact and the parking is expensive to go these boring centers, they may have debt problems in France, Italy and Germany etc but their city centers have a much better selection of shops i dont see the problem there so why is it here?

Gambling is everywhere, inescapable, even rammed down your throat incessantly on TV. I hesitate to think of the appalling effect it must be having on the poor - its the other side of the corporate greed coin. False hope for the masses. It should be controlled.

You forgot the largest occupier of properties becoming vacant - charity shops