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Keef, I am not surprised that someone you know, who owns one of the ED shops, has said they are "selling a load of frilly cushions to housewives with far too much time and money". I find that all rather indicative of some parts of the area.

honk Wrote:

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> Keef Wrote:

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> > Possibly a bit sexist, but to be fair, if you

> > counted the customers of these shops over an

> > average week, I'm pretty sure women would be a

> > huge majority, so maybe it's just a cheeky way

> of

> > making a valid point.

> >

>

>

> I mean the proprietors, not the customers.

>

> My dad opened a bridal shop for his wife on a whim

> once, mainly as otherwise she would seemingly have

> sat at home bored. Other popular types of 'my

> wife's bored' shops are

>

> 'The shop that sells some oddments of cookware,

> novelty ice cube trays and ironic birthday cards'

>

>

> and

>

> 'The Upmarket Pet Shop / Dog Groomer'

>

> East Dulwich has a surfeit of such types of shop*

>

>

> *this is not based on any kind of extensive

> research


Well Hope and Greenwood, the chocolate shop of which you speak, appears to me to be a business with a remarkably sound expansion strategy, as they have a place just off Covent Garden and I believe sell in Knightsbridge too ... if 'my wife bored' means 'my wife makes a fortune' then excellent.

Nicholas Wrote:

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> Enjoy while you can,Credit crunch,who knows in a year or two

> might have pound shops and even a Lidl on the lane!


But there is, thankfully, no premise big enough for a large supermarket. I think

the nature of LL would drastically change, imo not for the better, if there were.

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