Category: Trade: Shopkeeper

Turning The Shop Lights Off Because Trade Is Slow In Warminster

Thursday 24th October 2013

Danny Howell writes ~

You know trade is slow in Warminster when you walk into a shop, as I did at lunchtime, and find it only lit by daylight because the light bulbs are turned off. The shopkeeper then turned the lights on, openly telling me and two other customers: “I only put the lights on when people come in and I turn them off when the customers leave.” This had nothing to do with being energy friendly for the planet or the environment. The shopkeeper said: “Things have been bad and have been getting worse since car parking charges were introduced in Warminster and the pavements were widened which did away with much of the on-street parking. Turning the lights off saves the cost of running a shop where the number of items sold is getting less, thanks to less customers, thanks to no-one wanting to pay to park. My customers are not interested in the parking scheme. They would rather drive to another town.”

Why Our Town Centres Are Not Performing Like They Used To

Wednesday 11th September 2013

Nick Croker, the owner of Stationery Plus, who is about to shut up his shop for good at the Cornmarket, Warminster, has listed on his Facebook Page the few issues (parking, rent and rates, management, supermarkets, and the internet) he says are the reason for our town centres no longer performing like they used to. He has contacted Mary Portas on Twitter. She agrees with what Nick says, but reckons it will take policy changes to make anything happen. To read what Nick says, click here.

My High Street Participants Have To Be Pro-Active To Make It Work Effectively

The Meeting of the Enterprise Warminster group, held on Tuesday 4th December 2012, at Warminster Civic Centre, discussed the present position with regard an online My High Street presence for Warminster retailers to offer their products to local people who prefer to shop via the internet.

Michelle Doyle, who is not only a member of Enterprise Warminster but also the proprietor of the Serendipity gift shop in the Market Place, Warminster, said she had had very limited time to investigate this idea, but the few retailers she had contacted were not very positive about it. She had spoken to retailers in the Wells and Castle Cary scheme for MyHigh.St and had discovered that membership of the scheme involves being pro-active to make it work effectively. The consensus was that businesses in those two aforementioned towns in Somerset were glad they had joined the scheme, which had been slow in getting going but was now growing in strength. It was imperative that participating shops and businesses keep their lists of products and goods up-to-date online in order to achieve success.

Enterprise Warminster agreed to go ahead with inviting representatives of MyHigh.St to give a presentation in Warminster during January 2013. Veronica Mills, the Co-ordinator for Enterprise Warminster, will notify Michelle Doyle of dates the meeting rooms at Warminster Civic Centre are available for the proposed presentation.

To see myhigh.st for Wells, click here. 

To see myhigh.st for Castle Cary, click here.

Wonga In Warminster

Sunday 18th November 2012

The newly-opened Wonga Shop
at 8 Silver Street, Warminster.
It is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
8.00 a.m. until 7.00 p.m. 

The Wonga Shop says it will buy just about anything
from a laptop to a lawnmower for instant cash
from customers who call in at the shop.
Or pictures of items the public have for sale
can be emailed to thewongashop@gmail.com
and a cash price will be given immediately.

A violin and binoculars in the window of the
Wonga Shop. We also noticed guitars, amplifiers,
porcelain and illustrated plates in the window
and inside the shop. The list of items purchased
by the Wonga Shop includes: gold, silver,
watches, power tools, medals, cars,
games consoles, sporting goods, televisions,
dvd players, blu-ray players, furniture,
old ornaments, motorcycles and mobile phones.

The Wonga Shop at 8 Silver Street, Warminster.

 Telephone 01985 846651

Wonga In Warminster

Sunday 18th November 2012

The newly-opened Wonga Shop at 8 Silver Street, Warminster. It is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 8.00 a.m. until 7.00 p.m. 

The Wonga Shop says it will buy just about anything from a laptop to a lawnmower for instant cash from customers who call in at the shop. Or pictures of items the public have for sale can be emailed to thewongashop@gmail.com and a cash price will be given immediately.

A violin and binoculars in the window of the Wonga Shop. We also noticed guitars, amplifiers, porcelain and illustrated plates in the window and inside the shop. The list of items purchased by the Wonga Shop includes: gold, silver, watches, power tools, medals, cars, games consoles, sporting goods, televisions, dvd players, blu-ray players, furniture, old ornaments, motorcycles and mobile phones.

The Wonga Shop at Silver Street, Warminster. Telephone 01985 846651

Poundland Signs

Tuesday 30th October 2012

From the Vision For Warminster website:

Poundland . . . The Midlands based Poundland stores group has seen Wiltshire Council planners rubber stamp their proposed shopfront signs for the latest change to the look of the Three Horseshoes Mall, Warminster.

 This comes just a few day after Australian company Stockland, who own the shopping area, got the thumbs-up to extend several of the individual shops opposite Iceland outwards at the rear.

Poundland now have over 400 outlets nationally and when it is opened will add to the recent new businesses that have plumped for Warminster.

“Warminster has attracted Waitrose, the B and M group, and several small businesses to the town,” comments Paul Macdonald. “Perhaps our vfw should stand for Vibrant, Friendly, Warminster!”

www.vision-for-waminster.co.uk/news.html_82222.html

 

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