Even the free parking isn't enough. The local shops losing out to the supermarkets
"You spend all month trying to make next month's rent, there's rarely anything left over for you." That's the life for Anton Jaskiewicz, the owner of The Battery Shop at Oldham's Tommyfield Market. Declining town centre footfall and rent pressure is making it difficult to get by.
"We have a quarter of the customers coming through than we have before but we're still paying almost full rent, the council have knocked down the rents a little bit but it costs a lot to be here and I've got to take that before we make a penny. It's bloody awful." "Even though Oldham Council closed us down we still had to pay full rent and I don't agree with that, I would have happily paid storage rent but I disagree with having to pay full rent. I'd like to see more advertising about the market too, I've heard it once or twice on the radio but why can't they put a sign on the bin wagons that go all over the Oldham area? Everyone's struggling.
It's a tough time to be trying to make ends meet. Even tougher when your income relies on the money other people are willing or able to part with. As the cost of living crisis deepens, fewer people are heading out to make any non-essential purchases, squeezing their purse strings and making it even tougher for traders to balance the books.
"After three it's completely dead, people have picked up their kids and they don't want to be dragging them back out to get free parking. It'd be better if the parking was free earlier in the day so people could get up, drop the kids off at school, and come and get some shopping. It is what it is though, there's nothing you can do about it."
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