Loss of local shops

I have uploaded a report prepared by the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group, entitled "HIGH STREET BRITAIN: 2015". It's an interesting, albeit depressing, read and comes to the conclusion that, unless we encourage retail diversity and give small businesses a fighting chance, small independent shops will disappear from Britain's high streets by the year 2015. We are turning a nation of shopkeepers into a nation of shelf stackers.

Click on the link below to download the pdf file.

So what are ASDA offering Silverhill area. It needs a cash injection !!

yep. It could do with some cash being spent on it, for sure. But. Walamart ASDA are a huge american company. Their profits are not going to benefit the local economy, i.e. Silverhill, or St. Leonards. Or even East Sussex. We should be supporting local businesses who will spend their profits locally.

I was just whiling away my time looking at the Preferred Approaches for the Hastings Core strategy (as you do)and found in section 17.7 that the Local Area Agreement has amongst its key local targets:
Improving skills development, improving economic performance measured by reduced unemployment,more employment space, higher average earnings and greater numbers of businesses;increasing entrepreneurial activity; and last but by no means least, supporting the growth and reducing the failure, of locally owned businesses.
I'm at a loss to see how ASDA contributes to any of those targets - primarily it guarantees the failure of locally owned businesses but also contributes nothing to skills development, offering only low paid jobs (not higher average earnings - and ASDA is renowned for low pay - how else can it offer 2p sausages? Oh yes, by filling them with rubbish.....) reduces the number of businesses and decreases entrepreneurial activity. Remind me again why we need ASDA - oh yes, so we can feed our kids a 2p sausage. It doesn't get more short sighted than this, folks....