Recent talks on cutting spending and new shopping centres are not well-matched with each other. Yes we love these new shopping centres and plush surroundings, tempting everyone to spend all their well earned money. But are we tempted? This is the multimillion dollar question. I love to shop like everybody else and buy new things like any other normal person would, also to have a good choice. So my idea of shopping is the traditional high street. Traditional high street shopping is where you will find the best choice and a variety of shops to suit everyone, Building huge shopping centres takes up space of any town or city and is becoming really outdated and boring. Today another shopping centre opens its doors and it is mammoth like those of Gates Head in the north and other big ones like the Meadow Hall; Sheffield
and Merry hill; West Midlands. Why do we need all these shops, yes its exciting to visit them but they soon become exactly the same of all the other shopping malls, with the same shops repeated over and over again and when we get use to them we search for other new shopping centres and while we do we return to the traditional famous high street shops we are all use to. If the truth be known, most of us tend to drop the idea of big malls and enjoy the high street shops like Stratford upon Avon; Shrewsbury; Nottingham; Birmingham and Derby city, to name a few. Yes these towns do have the additional indoor shopping centres, but we only tend to shop indoors during the winter weeks, which we do not get anymore. London has got to be the role model of the popular high street shopping experience, think about it? Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus; Covent Garden and Canary wharf, all these have some amazing shops on offer. Instead we carry on building worthless shopping centres on an enormous and costly magnitude. We do not need this many. I did mention Derby city earlier on and today the doors opened too the all brand new Westfield shopping centre and you guess it, its guess the shop competition all over again. Boots; Debenhams; Costa coffee x 2; BHS; M&S; Matalan; Next; WHSmiths; Star bucks; Monsoon; Madhouse. I could go on and bore you with the same named shops all over again and all under one roof, Woolworths and Sainsbury's, Derby has now got three Sainsbury's, yes three all within 5 mins of each other, providing the traffic is good. The multimillion pound shopping centres against the local NHS hospital, if the local councils ploughed money into the hospitals like they do with shopping centres then what an health service we would end up with, plush beds and plush wards with enough staff to cater for all those unwell people and you don't even need your purse. Instead we plough money into these posh shops where at the end of the day we end up 100s of pounds out of pocket spending in them. We have now purchased all those nice things and now we are feeling stressed and unwell that we have used our credit cards to the maximum, Thoughts of all this spending has increased our stress levels, knowing that we have to pay back all this money spent on our cards, in turn we end up at the hospital hoping to get some form of comforts and these are free. How many more marks and Spencer's can we handle and others including Debenhams; BHS; Boots; Sainsbury and Next. The brand new multimillion Westfield shopping centre of Derby, entwined with the old shopping centre, walking from old to new and visa versa, the old centre still the same and not been touched. Still the same old décor mixed with the new.
Round and round we go in circles. The new centre is creating a vacuum for all those other shops and businesses' in the vicinity. Shops I have known for years have been forced to close, creating a derelict feel to the city of derby, it feels as though some space ship has landed from mars and taken all the shop owners away. Cafes closed, Shops Boarded up like as if we were facing a hurricane. Billions spent on Derby city, creating a pedestrianised area and now drawing all the custom away into the new shopping centre. M&S and Debenhams have moved to the new and the old are now a thing of the past making the way for night clubs, night clubs like in the past have closed and never reopened, still abandoned. The west field shopping centre of Derby CITY we did not really need.
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