Saw a thread on Reddit that made me think about this, how some highstreets in the UK feel kinda dead; not in the sense that they feel empty or not busy on a Saturday (though many I've seen in recent years are filled with empty units) but just that we're reaching a point where you would go online for many things you might've previously shopped for.
I am thinking of getting a new watch. Just a cheap one; probably a Timex digital watch for <£50, that I can wear in situations where I don't want to wear my FitBit for concerns I'd damage it.
I live in a major UK city, and there is nowhere I can go to do this. There are watch shops, certainly, but they're the types that selling Breitling and CITIZEN watches; they're no good for what I need. Argos closed up shop at the start of the pandemic.
I accept that a high-street shop might be a bit more expensive than Amazon, but I'd pay a fiver more, for the ease of returns, better guarantee the item is genuine and the chance to try it on etc. before buying.
A month ago, I needed to pay in a cheque I'd received as a Christmas gift. My city branch of Barclays had a huge queue, because they only had 1 machine active, and none of the desks were open; they told me that this branch of a major global bank in a major city doesn't have any actual people staffing the desk on saturdays.
I could go on but I'll stop; point is in recent months, many times, I've found myself wanting to do something I would expect to do on the high-street, and just simply can no longer do. This has been creeping up for years but in recent times it seems to have really increased pace.
Has anyone else noticed this more and more?
I am thinking of getting a new watch. Just a cheap one; probably a Timex digital watch for <£50, that I can wear in situations where I don't want to wear my FitBit for concerns I'd damage it.
I live in a major UK city, and there is nowhere I can go to do this. There are watch shops, certainly, but they're the types that selling Breitling and CITIZEN watches; they're no good for what I need. Argos closed up shop at the start of the pandemic.
I accept that a high-street shop might be a bit more expensive than Amazon, but I'd pay a fiver more, for the ease of returns, better guarantee the item is genuine and the chance to try it on etc. before buying.
A month ago, I needed to pay in a cheque I'd received as a Christmas gift. My city branch of Barclays had a huge queue, because they only had 1 machine active, and none of the desks were open; they told me that this branch of a major global bank in a major city doesn't have any actual people staffing the desk on saturdays.
I could go on but I'll stop; point is in recent months, many times, I've found myself wanting to do something I would expect to do on the high-street, and just simply can no longer do. This has been creeping up for years but in recent times it seems to have really increased pace.
Has anyone else noticed this more and more?
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