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Better than Richmond, but worse than Stoke Newington

MirandolaMirandola
edited September 2010 in Local discussion
That new 'clone town' report has Finsbury Park scoring 81.5 out of a 100 for non-clone-ness. Richmond only gets 19.5, but Stoke Newington gets 84.2.

They don't have a Stroud Green section. We should protest.

http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/Reimagining_the_high_street_0.pdf
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  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    edited 12:18AM
    Where else in Norf London gets a mention? Crouch End? Hornsey? Muswell Hill?
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  • MirandolaMirandola
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • ActionVerbActionVerb
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • DavidDavid
    edited 12:18AM
    I'm not getting what your preference for Sainsbury's has to do with the Clone Town report.
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  • MirandolaMirandola
    edited September 2010
    Clone town report argues that chains are bad, independent shops good. More or less.
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  • IanIan
    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 tigercrouchend tiger
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • tosscattosscat
    edited 12:18AM
    [yawn](http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics)
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  • DavidDavid
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • andyandy
    edited 12:18AM
    To be fair to them, you can draw a fairly direct line from Schumacher to nef.
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  • DavidDavid
    edited 12:18AM
    No doubt. It's still lazy tag-lining.
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  • JoeVJoeV
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • ADGSADGS
    edited 12:18AM
    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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  • RonaRona
    edited 12:18AM
    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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