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Old 10-11-2019, 20:02   #271
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

Just as with buying any sort of property, it's costs money to repay the loans/mortgage.


The bigger picture is that even with zero rents and zero business rates, the shops would struggle.
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Old 11-11-2019, 00:56   #272
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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Indeed that was my thinking as something is better then nothing l always find but as most of these landlords are big retail land companies they seem uncompromising and inflexible.
They all seem to be agreeing to the CVAs which suggests they are being flexible.
One issue they face is that when they do it for one tenant, the other tenants request a reduction too. This impacts the returns they provide for their owners, typically pension funds. And pensioners are not usually keen to accept lower pensions.
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Old 20-01-2020, 16:20   #273
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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Department store chain Beales has gone into administration, putting 23 stores and 1,052 jobs at risk.

The drastic move follows failed efforts to find a buyer amid poor Christmas trading and sky high rents.

KPMG has been appointed as administrator to the Bournemouth-headquartered chain.

Founded in 1881, Beales operates 23 department stores in market towns across the UK selling a range of furniture, fashion, toys and cosmetics. It employs circa 1,052 members of staff.

Will Wright, partner at KPMG and joint administrator, said: “For over a hundred years, Beales has been a stalwart of the high street in market towns up and down the UK, but like countless similar retailers, has found trading in recent times to be incredibly tough.
This is a big store in our main High Street, four floors I think. Only just up the road from Debenhams that is also teetering.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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BBC News - Department store Beales collapses into administration
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.One of Britain's oldest department stores has collapsed into administration, putting more than 1,000 jobs at risk.
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Old 20-01-2020, 17:10   #275
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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This is a big store in our main High Street, four floors I think. Only just up the road from Debenhams that is also teetering.
Sadly unless there is proper long term change with a series of measures to help our High Street the High Street as we know it will not exist in the future in its current form..
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Sadly unless there is proper long term change with a series of measures to help our High Street the High Street as we know it will not exist in the future in its current form..
Like what? Rents and rates aren't the problem, as the sales are not there in the first place for so many shops. The big superstores sell so much of everybody's regular and more occasional needs that they don't need to go elsewhere.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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This is a big store in our main High Street, four floors I think. Only just up the road from Debenhams that is also teetering.

Beecles is buggered then, most of the shops are Beales, I was there in 2018.

---------- Post added at 18:14 ---------- Previous post was at 18:11 ----------

I blame scandelous rents charged by landlords, then out out of date trading laws that restrict Sunday trading hours.

I the late 80's I worked for W.H.Smith Do It All, I worked 9 till 6 on Sundays along with colledge students, now I can buy something on Saturday and get it delivered on Sunday before the shops open.

Thats why the high street is suffering.
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Old 20-01-2020, 21:39   #278
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

High streets are suffering because businesses there pay businesses rates, in return for which they get bugger all, except for badly designed pedestrianisation schemes, dirty streets with cracked pavements, overflowing bins and outrageously expensive council run car parks, and because the shops themselves charge more for a narrower range of goods. Out of town centres far better because they’re under cover, and usually clean, and the parking is free. Internet shopping does best of all because it’s always open, doesn’t pay business rates and offers a broader range of products.

It’s worth mentioning by the way that there are no restrictions on Sunday trading hours in Scotland but there’s no evidence high streets are doing any better here than elsewhere. It’s a combination of factors, not just one thing.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

I wish we got rid of the Sunday trading laws anyway, it's so annoying to suddenly remember you need 'x or y' and you can't just get it.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

Business rates and rents have always been there. The complaints are that people aren't visiting the high streets and buying anything. Rents and rates are immaterial in that.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

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Business rates and rents have always been there. The complaints are that people aren't visiting the high streets and buying anything. Rents and rates are immaterial in that.
Eh? Of course they’re material.

They are part of the cost of doing business in a high street. They are part of the reason why products cost more in a high street shop than from a web store like Amazon. The cost per square foot is one of the factors restricting the size of shops, in turn restricting the range of products on offer, again in comparison to the seemingly limitless choices on sites like Amazon.

Shoppers are not dim witted. They know they get less choice for more money on the high street, and are beginning to stay away in droves. The places making a fist of resisting this trend are the ones which can credibly sell themselves as a destination, so a family might make a day out of it and do some shopping amidst the eating and coffee stops.
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Re: House of Fraser in trouble...

High streets need to change, and are changing, to places of leisure. bars, cafes, restaurants, boutique shops etc.

Large department stores will exist mainly in large Malls.
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Eh? Of course they’re material.

They are part of the cost of doing business in a high street. They are part of the reason why products cost more in a high street shop than from a web store like Amazon. The cost per square foot is one of the factors restricting the size of shops, in turn restricting the range of products on offer, again in comparison to the seemingly limitless choices on sites like Amazon.

Shoppers are not dim witted. They know they get less choice for more money on the high street, and are beginning to stay away in droves. The places making a fist of resisting this trend are the ones which can credibly sell themselves as a destination, so a family might make a day out of it and do some shopping amidst the eating and coffee stops.
If you're not selling anything then even if rent and rates were zero, you'd still be making a loss. The restricting factors on size of shops are the physical buildings, along with parking availability. The elephant in the room on costs is the minimum wage.



How much of what Amazon provides has ever been on the high street? Eg just try finding the same range(type, length, colour) of HDMI cables anywhere else. Just not possible. It's impossible for any shop to provide the huge range from a variety of different manufacturers that is available nowadays.
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If you're not selling anything then even if rent and rates were zero, you'd still be making a loss. The restricting factors on size of shops are the physical buildings, along with parking availability. The elephant in the room on costs is the minimum wage.



How much of what Amazon provides has ever been on the high street? Eg just try finding the same range(type, length, colour) of HDMI cables anywhere else. Just not possible. It's impossible for any shop to provide the huge range from a variety of different manufacturers that is available nowadays.
But they are selling things and their rent and rates aren't zero, so your straw man argument is invalid (unlike Chris's points, which are based in the real world).
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But they are selling things and their rent and rates aren't zero, so your straw man argument is invalid (unlike Chris's points, which are based in the real world).
The bigger stores may still be selling some things, but is it enough to cover their costs, even if rents and rates were zero? Rents and rates haven't suddenly been sprung on them from nowhere, they've been there all along. Reducing rents and rates isn't going to have that much of an impact. The frequent complaint is that less people are visiting the high street in the first place, therefore they can't be buying that much.
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Shoppers are making fewer visits to High Streets.
The retail analytics company Springboard tracks footfall in main towns and cities. It's seen a decline in numbers for the past few years.
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Consumers are still shopping, of course. But even with the rise of online, shops need people to walk through the door.
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But the overall picture is the UK has too many shops, they're too big and in the wrong locations. The winners will be the companies that know what their consumers want and give it to them, with great service and products they want to buy.
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The number of people visiting the region's high streets has fallen by almost a quarter in the past decade.
Exclusive figures for ITV reveal the scale of the problem across the East.
In the last decade (2009-2019), the number of people visiting high streets in the Anglia region has fallen by 23.5%. This is higher than the national average of 20.5%, according to the Local Data company, who produced the figures for ITV's Tonight programme.
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