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February 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Last updated at 4:20 PM on 12th February 2012
A leading supermarket boss is to call for Britain’s declining high street to be ‘shrunk’ and empty shops replaced with houses or classrooms.
Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, will state this week that the nation’s high streets have become a ‘poor second’ to out-of-town supermarkets.
Mr King’s comments are likely to attract criticism, however, as many independent retailers blame the likes of Sainsbury’s for ruining local trade in the first place.
Sainsbury’s boss Justin King will suggest that derelict shops like these in Southwark, London, could be converted into classrooms or houses.
Sainsbury’s is currently Britain’s third biggest supermarket retailer, with a 16.7 per cent market share
But the supermarket boss is set to criticise local traders for failing to cater to the local population by offering customer loyalty schemes, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Mr King is also expected to hit back at claims that supermarkets are to blame for the decline of the high street.
According to the Telegraph, he will say this week: ‘Where high streets have declined, I do not believe that the blame can be laid at the door of supermarkets.
‘Supermarkets have reflected society and changes in society. Many shoppers do not have the time to potter between the butcher, the baker and the grocer.
Supermarket boss Justin King said retailers like Sainsbury’s should not be blamed for the ‘irreversible decline’ of the high street
Mr King believes classrooms and housing are just two of the options which could help kickstart parts of the overcapacity’ high street
‘What I think we need to do is… be brave enough to shrink the high street and allow empty shops to be converted for other uses such as residential where there is overcapacity.’
In his speech to be delivered at the annual City Food Lecture at Guildhall, central London, Mr King will announce how he believes the high street can bounce back from what many have termed as an ‘irreversible decline’.
Sainsbury’s is currently the UK’s third biggest supermarket behind Tesco and Asda.
Over Christmas the retailer saw its market share grow slightly from 16.6per cent to 16.7per cent.
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Put your money where your mouth is, Mr King
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It serves the councils right. Their greedy car parking charges and fines and clamping have driven their customers to other places. Idiots.
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Supermarket boss Justin King said retailers like Sainsbury’s should not be blamed for the ‘irreversible decline’ of the high street. —– So who is to blame?
– Trevor, Ammanford, Wales, 13/2/2012 8:26——–You could try looking at Council shop rents, business rates,over zealous parking wardens ,oh, and don;t forget the general public who complain when supermarkets try to open in their areas, and the flock to them leaving the smaller stores to go under.
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Another major difference between German and British supermarkets is this: German supermarkets basically offer just food – with a few special extras sometimes. But they do not offer banking services, do not offer a clothes section (like George of Asda), do not offer a large cut-price book and CD section. And so on. This means that people walk to the small supermarkets near to where they live and then, when they want something special .. such as clothes, something to decorate their house with, crockery, computer stuff, and the like, then they go into town and buy these things at specialist shops there.
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The long term view is to create monstrous corridors of slum cities where every citizen is dependent on corporate business for survival.
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People will by choice prefer to shop in the warm and out of the rain. Additionally, out of town shopping centres don’t normally charge for parking and there’s plenty of it. This makes it just so much more convenient.
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Supermarket boss Justin King said retailers like Sainsbury’s should not be blamed for the ‘irreversible decline’ of the high street. —– So who is to blame?
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The cheek of it! You blame parking fees but the truth is that you are to lazy to walk any distance and the price you pay at the superstores and online is cheaper. Hypocites. Tell the truth if you are to comment. Selfich and self centred the lot of you. Get out of your car and have a walk down your High Street, it’s a shame you didn’t do that years ago!
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Shops are too high priced to rent, the rates are horrendous. I was offered one. I can’t afford one because I have a limited market for my individually made items. I would rather have a small workshop and have a web site. I pay a lot less, my goods are seen by a bigger marketplace and I dont watch my hard earned cash bleeding down the drain of landlord and council.
Now you also have the problem of employing people, it has to be minimum wage or nothing. You have to pay SSP, SMP etc etc. I need a great deal of disposable income before I become a shop keeper again. Unless you have a very high footfall, you don’t get the customers. Unless you have a prime position, you don’t get the customers. High footfall and prime position is too expensive.
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Supermarkets are designed for the motor-car and a globalised supply chain. Oil is going to get dearer and in shorter supply and countries will have to start taxing imports – just like before. Just think of all these wars to keep the oil flowing to the West.
As soon as people have to learn to walk again, supermarkets will be finished.
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