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Neal St East Trading Store to close.

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:39 / 04.03.02

An alarming discovery on the weekend: pinned to the front door of Neal St East was a letter saying that they're shutting up shop [brainfailure]in April?[/brainfailure] because their landlord has upped their rent. Not by a small amount, either; over the course of a year, it looks like it's set to jump from around £280,000 to £750,000. So, after being in Covent Garden for nearly forty years, they're leaving.

No big sale is meant to be happening, but stuff's being reduced all the time.

Another shoe chain will be moving into the building.

I just thought y'all might want to know. Made me feel a bit sad when I found out on the weekend...

12:41 / 04.03.02

Yeah, it's mid-April. 14th or 16th, can't remember which...

14:09 / 04.03.02

Blimey... that rent increase is unbelievable. Tis a real pity...

14:28 / 04.03.02

True. It's what's happening to the bookshops on Charing X Road too (obviously not Borders, Foyles or Blackwell's - the small, second-hand and independent booksellers) - Silver Moon had to give up their lease, one of the second-hand shops has gone, Shipley's has a window-full of press cuttings about it... GRRRR. And what has replaced them? A charity shop (the second-hand one) and a bargain basement bookshop (the sort that sells calendars and bad art books, you know the ones I mean). GRRRRR. What is the point? Charing X Road is full of dreadful bars and chain restaurants anyway - who needs another? The bookshops are the only thing that makes it bearable. Boycott! Boycott! Picket!

I am going to Ch X road tonight to spend all my wages there.

The Natural Way

14:33 / 04.03.02

Gutted.

Fuck: goodbye fun nooks and crannies, hello yet another fucking shoe shop.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: You and Runce ]

14:37 / 04.03.02

Whats the deal with shoe shops anyway, why do we need so many? Back home every other shop was a shoe shop (more or less) - think there were more people than shoes...um actually that would be right considering most people own at least 2 but still - shoe shops????