Better than Richmond, but worse than Stoke Newington

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• krappyrubsnif

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  Where else in Norf London gets a mention? Crouch End? Hornsey? Muswell Hill?

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• Mirandola

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  Muswell Hill is 57.5, Kentish Town 67.6, Camden 39.5. No Crouch End or Hornsey.
  
  Sorry, can't do linky thing.
  
  http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/Reimagining_the_high_street_0.pdf

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• ActionVerb

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  This report is likely to make me highly annoyed. So I shall read it as soon as I get a chance. However, an appropriate example: Number of times I shopped at Woody's for anything more than one or two specialised products and spent over a fiver in 3.5years: 0 Numberof times I shopped at Sainsbury's Local and spent over a fiver since it opened: 1

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• David

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  I'm not getting what your preference for Sainsbury's has to do with the Clone Town report.

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• Mirandola

  September 2010 edited September 2010

  Clone town report argues that chains are bad, independent shops good. More or less.

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• Ian

  September 2010 edited September 2010

  Their general thesis is, then, that consumers are wrong and we should focus our expenditure on places with higher prices and, possibly, inferior goods so that the street looks pretty? Even they sound embarrassed by their finding that "Only Shepherd’s Bush registered as a home town from West London" given the 250 store Westfield shopping centre found there. I can't read anything by NEF and take it seriously,and it is important to note that the use of 'economics' in their name is in no way related to economics the academic discipline. These are the people that bought you '1976 was the best year ever" - for those that weren't there it wasn't - and we would all be better off with a ‘standard’ working week of 21 hours' - we won't.

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• crouchend tiger

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  If the choice is between our lovely new Sainsbury's and the pseud horror that is Stoke Newington, then give me an over-lit multinational supermarket chain every time.
  
  Why would I want to shop for a pint of milk in my local high street when I can buy a ridiculous olde worlde wooden toy and some fair trade quinoa instead?

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• tosscat

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  [yawn](http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics)

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• David

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  I don't like the way NEF have lifted the tagline from Schumacher's Small is Beautiful. As an independent think-and-do tank you'd think they could have got their own.

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• andy

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  To be fair to them, you can draw a fairly direct line from Schumacher to nef.

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• David

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  No doubt. It's still lazy tag-lining.

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• JoeV

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  These studies crack me up. Why isn’t there a category for ‘ghost towns’ because I would guess there’d be any number of locales in this country that would kill for a high street like Richmond’s in place of empty streets and boarded-up shop fronts.

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• ADGS

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  And even aside from those, sometimes in the outer zones one comes across the most terrible high streets where, even if the shops are all open, they're massively depressing - a burger bar that aspires to being a Wimpy, a mini-mart that looks longingly to Costcutters, a pub which could never be a fraction as classy as a Wetherspoon's. When I see those, I am reminded why chains do so well.

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• Rona

  September 2010 edited 3:58AM

  There are chains and chains!! What about Londis on Ferme Park Road - it's a chain although a franchise one, and the guy there has done wonders in terms of the produce. V V expensive but I can usually get what I want there.

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