Is it possible to/How do you 'save' the high street?

[Lazlow]

I'm not sure about you guys but I just don't visit my town shopping centre, high street shops or corner shops that often. It's just so inconvenient compared to purchasing online; why spend 30mins going from shop to shop and not finding what you want when it's just a click/button press away? It's become something that makes less sense to me as time goes on. But outside of mine or your shopping preferences, trying o o

 

[Deleted member 31873]

I'll go once a month or so, and my town center seems plenty busy enough to still be viable whenever I'm there.

 

[orlock]

i assume this is a distinctly non-American colloquialism, but if i gather the meaning i usually dont go out to a store for anything other than grocery shopping these days. mostly because i live in a super rural/country region and if i want, well, anything, i kind of have no choice. i do almost all of my shopping online because its very likely to be an hour plus for me to get to where i can find what im looking for, and its likely to be more expensive anyway.

when i lived in Philadelphia i tried to do a lot more brick-and-mortar shopping, but even then it really depended on how much more i was willing to spend simply to support physical locations i liked versus getting off of my 5th sixteen hour work shift that week and wanting to spend less money for the same items from the comfort of my bed.

 

[JayC3]

Closing duplicate thread.