Remember not so long ago?

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When evryone did their shopping at the local corner shop.
When everyone used the butchers, the bakers, the offlicence, went to their local pub, called in to the local post office, got the milk from an early morning milkman etc etc etc.

That was before the era of shares and the free market, before the average man in the street owned pieces of the tesco supermarket, a time when the local small business thrived on it's local community and people took the time of day to speak to each other.

Would it be such a bad thing if the whole of the financial sector collapsed instigating the closure of the hyper retailers and we had to return to the likes of "Arkwrights"?

Wouldn't society be a better place to live in?
 
Thanks for you lovely memory and yes I believe it would be better, as my memories are...
 
It was never terribly more expensive, but it was more expensive.
It became possible to shop in one place, rather than, as you suggest, going to the butcher, the grocer, the fishmonger, the post office, the ironmonger and so on and on.
We've lost them.
I think it's a great loss.
If you are willing to spend large amounts of money, and most people aren't, it is possible to get those sorts of service and delivery from the current, overpriced, sources that make their presence known at farmers markets and the like.
Maybe it would be a better place.
I don't think I'm going to pay for it.
I do believe, in my heart (not a reasonable place) that a return of all our corner shops would be a good thing.
But I want CHEAP. Corner shops can't do CHEAP.
 
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