Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
About sums-up the economy as a whole!
Mail online: The fake shopfronts built to cover-up abandoned shops in recession-hit high streets
As high streets are decimated by the recession - fake business facades have been installed to create the illusion that shops are still occupied.
North Tyneside Council is trialling the new window treatment that at first glance gives the impression that units are occupied.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255162/Fake-shopfronts-built-improve-look-recession-hit-high-streets.html#ixzz0h8DZIbMj
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1. sneaker said...
Telling the truth became unfashionable in the Noughties.
In the Twenteenies, will telling the truth become outlawed?
2. mark wadsworth said...
Nah ... slap the empty premises with a Business Rates surcharge, that'll sort 'em out.
3. mark said...
what a waste of taxpayers money
4. cat and canary said...
sounds like a classic Labour policy, cover up the mess underneath sigh!
5. tenant super said...
An upmarket deli on Tyneside! If it were real, what person would be spending £4.50 on a small cup of organic latte?
Liz Jones perhaps ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1254474/The-overdraft-generation-With-red-LIZ-JONES-comes-clean-debt-mountain.html )
6. 51ck-6-51x said...
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Judith Wallace, North Tyneside Council's deputy mayor, said: 'We need to do whatever we can to support our businesses and our town centres. The recession has forced many businesses to bring down their shutters.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255162/Fake-shopfronts-built-improve-look-recession-hit-high-streets.html#ixzz0h8fzuh6p
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How about setting up new business venture schemes whereupon rates and council property rentals are reduced? Thus putting /real/ businesses in such venues and getting the real economy going?
*sigh*
or should that be, *sign*?
7. icarus said...
This could give birth to a whole new industry with exportable consultancy expertise, a boost to the service sector and export earnings.