Online sales tax considered in bid to save the high street

chaparral · 27 Jul 2020 at 20:06

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/new...ave-the-high-street/ar-BB17foCf?ocid=msedgdhp

How do you guys feel about an online sales TAX ?

I think it take a lot more then a 2% online sales TAX to save the high street shops.
As a lot of the things i buy online are most likely around 30% cheaper then my local shops plus there the petrol costs to drive to them and the hassle of finding time to go to a local shop to only find out they no stock the item/s your after

chaparral · 28 Jul 2020 at 19:04

V F said:
I remember how magical the High Street was back in the late 80s early to mid 90s. TV shops/or were electrical shops. Hi-Fis etc, lots and lots of top notch clothes shops, tons of DIY. Newsagents were massive, they had everything you could have wanted. Rock shops which was like a newsagent but had food, drinks, ice cream, slushpuppies you name it they had it. Now everything is gone..

One shop had most of all that woolworths

That used to be the first shop i go into almost every time i went to town

chaparral · 2 Aug 2020 at 09:14

For me this can be a hard one

Like yesterday i went around to all my local motorbike dealers looking for a new bike jacket & gloves & boots plus i bought a new crash helmet & visor from one a few weeks ago

If no one buys there motorbike accessories from these motorbike dealers then they will not make enough on motorbike sales & services alone to keep going and we already lost are BMW motorbike & Ducati bike dealerships over here in guernsey

Plus i still like to do a lot of local shopping at B&Q, Sports Direct, Boots, Garden Centres, Other Hardware stores, TV Shops, Shops that sell Large Kitchen appliances like fridges, Washing machines, dryers etc i wouldn't like to see these close

chaparral · 2 Aug 2020 at 09:37

krooton said:
Retail parks aren't struggling like high streets though.

Don't have any of them in guernsey

Closest we have is an overpriced supermarket with a B&Q a few 100 feet away

chaparral · 7 Aug 2020 at 20:25

It going feel really strange if all the shops in the high street close as that mean we will not have a town and as it will just change to houses & flats and be the same as everywhere else

chaparral · 16 Aug 2020 at 16:15

Anyone seen what there doing in Jeresy to tried help the local businesses

https://www.gov.je/News/2020/Pages/DCMSpeech.aspx

In early September we will begin to distribute, via Jersey Post, the £100 Spend Local Cards to every adult and child on the Island.

These will be in the form of a prepaid Mastercard for those aged 16 and above, and prepaid card for those aged under 16.

You’ll get instructions with the cards on

However you decide to spend your £100 please continue to support our Island businesses and the jobs and livelihoods they provide in these most challenging of times.

chaparral · 16 Aug 2020 at 22:28

FoxEye said:
But functionally, what do you need a high-street for? Sorry, for what do you need a high-street?

Maybe it's time for a change. I'm not saying turn it into houses and flats (and I'm not saying *dont* do that )

But maybe there are better uses for these spaces than the same old shops from which few people are buying these days.

Loads of are small out of town shops over here that have closed down have been changed to houses or flats

Mainly because they can get crazy high prices for them that way..

chaparral · 7 Nov 2020 at 19:15

Rroff said:
With Sainsbury's immediately closing for good ~120 still temporary closed Argos high street stores with 80% of the rest to go - that is a further blow to the high street.

I heard of Sainsbury's, Are they big stores ?

We no have a sainsbury store where i live in Guernsey so i never been in one or seen one..