Saturday, 24 April 2010

Amidst all the doom and gloom....

I think it needs to remembered that Dorking is still an incredibly wonderful place to live. I have today, encouraged by the Spring sun, enjoyed a good long walk around the town, ending up in Glory Wood and Cotmandene. I realised again that we have much to be thankful for - the shopping in Dorking may not be that of other towns (although I don't think there's much you can't buy in the town and there are still a far greater number of independent shops than many, many places) but the place has not been ruined like so many others.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 April 2010 at 13:19

    Well said.

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  2. Peter1 May 2010 at 10:25

    Peopleofdorking has it 100% right, Dorking is a good town with many charming features, it just needs a decent supermarket that a Mum can get all her shopping in and with room to push a pushchair round.

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  3. JPB1 May 2010 at 10:37

    But not a supermarket on the outskirts of town that people will just drive to, shop and then drive back home from. The likes of Tesco make no bones about the fact that they want all small traders in a town to fail so that they can take all the business (why else would they have dry-cleaners, pharmacies etc in their stores). An enlarged Waitrose in the town would be ideal - they at least do not have a policy of destroying every place they have a store in for the sake of profit.

    PS I'm not PeopleofDorking who set up this blog, I just used the generic log-in to post the original message.

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  4. Peter3 May 2010 at 12:09

    Waitrose has done a marvelous job on their public profile of being not only a jolly good neighbour but every retailers' best friend - and all at a price that's less than Fortnum & Mason.

    The reality is that they are simply another very large supermarket group with some beautiful stores (Cobham, Farnham and Godalming for example)that are a grocers/bakers/butchers/confectioners/newsagents, etc. all rolled into one.

    Let's recognise them for what they are, excellent supermarkets, but not saviours of town centres.

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  5. Anonymous3 May 2010 at 14:27

    Who said they were saviours of town centres?

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  6. Peter4 May 2010 at 19:36

    I rather think JPB suggests this along with the group's band of faithfull followers - don't get me wrong I'm pro-Waitrose, but I recognise for what it is...another very big supermarket chain.

    And good luck to them!

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