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Small individual shops which don't belong to a chain, and sell stuff which isn't mass produced or plastic buckets for a quid.
Sadly, there's not many of them left, so if you can't buy it at Wilkinsons, Woolworths, Tesco or Primark, you're pretty well out of luck.
It doesn't really matter what type of small shops they are, but the usual spread that you used to see before town centres became nothing more than arcades of charity shops, fast food outlets and estate agents. Small family run jewellers, clothes shops, shoe shops, car parts, furniture - you name it, it used to be there! Most towns don't even have a bookshop now :( Now the chains have taken over, they all sell pretty much the same things at the same prices, and they're now shifting to out of town malls, leaving a wasteland behind.
Would I use them? Yes, because I'd rather a small business had my money than a large one. And because at a small shop, generally speaking, your custom is important: you're one out of maybe 2,000 customers, not one out of 2,000,000. |
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