Good post - I'd thought the same myself mate. This will get millions of people used to shopping online and I suspect many high street businesses will never manage to get the customers back in the same numbers, and sadly will fold as a result. :-(As most non essential shops are closed, and could be for some time, more and more shopping will be done online, it was already bad enough, but if people spend months having to buy stuff online will we just get so used to it, that it will effectively kill high street shopping once and for all. Even the big retail parks with places like PC World and B&Q could find it more difficult.
i worry about this every minute of the day. never have before but i do now.As most non essential shops are closed, and could be for some time, more and more shopping will be done online, it was already bad enough, but if people spend months having to buy stuff online will we just get so used to it, that it will effectively kill high street shopping once and for all. Even the big retail parks with places like PC World and B&Q could find it more difficult.
We've been using a local grocer and butcher for a couple of years now, the butcher is delivering, but the grocer isn't, and its not the size of shop I want to visit right now as its very small, and often full of people, I'll go back when they reopen obviously but for now I've found a farm shop who are delivering.weve been getting fresh fruit and veg delivered by the shop we just usually walk past,and when this thing goes away we wil carry on using them.
I always use good butchers and green grocers. Clothes wise, it’s only ever jeans I try on as I’m a weird shape but trainers and t-shirts are always online now. Huge fan of Depop the app.
Hereford was always excellent for charity shops. We’d all buy loud shirts and monopolise a juke box in some fun pub as there was fuck all else to do.
We’ve done the same and we’ve gone back to our old milkman, although it’s now his son as he died in 2019.weve been getting fresh fruit and veg delivered by the shop we just usually walk past,and when this thing goes away we wil carry on using them.