1. They destroy the heart of the town. They destroy small businesses and the jobs they provide and replace them with ill-paid part time work at a ratio of over two to one.
2. Their profits go back to their shareholders instead of recirculating in the local economy.
3. They bring in their foodstuffs from miles away at horrendous environmental cost and largely ignore the produce of our local farms.
4. They only serve people with cars. The old, the poor and the disabled and townspeople who don't want to drive will not be able to use them and will have to find what they can among the the hoodie patrolled wilderness of betting, charity shops and tourist traps that our beloved town centre will become (Lawrence Gordon Clark).
These are all really interesting points I commend you on you originality of thought here.
ReplyDeleteBy the way No.4 has had me in stitches.
Are you sure you know what town everyone is referring to? The term "hoodie patrolled" might even be deemed offensive to the young people of our town!
(The Uke of Cornwall)
I take it that these "hoodies" you refer to are the children of the minimum wage earners that both you and Harriet refer to?
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