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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I only buy from bakeries and butchers who vote Sinn Fein.
A lot of new businesses have opened and stayed open since they arrived, and other large companies are starting to piggyback now that Tesco have proved it's a town worth looking at.
This is a town run formerly run by three or four local families for generations, who were on every committee, ran the council, blacklisted workers, fixed petrol prices and ran manky, illegally filthy and expensive shops seemingly immune from prosecution.
And if you'd fallen out with so-and-so's second cousin when you were 15, don't even bother going to that job interview, you wouldn't stand a chance.
Some of us imagined a multinational company coming here to shut down what little we had left, when in fact they just smashed a cartel.
Local isn't always better.
When I was a kid there used to be an independent toy shop we used to love, there used to be a Tandy, and a Woolworths. All of that stuff has gone now. You can buy toys in Tesco, and you can buy most of what Woolworths used to sell. It's not all Tesco's fault but I don't think it has helped.
You should ask in Kirk's if any of them vote Sinn Fein.
I left with change from a tenner.
i don’t go because they are local. I go because the quality is amazing and the prices are better than most supermarkets.
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Our local greengrocer and butcher are fantastic and they're thriving because they're challenging the supermarket on quality, but they never made that effort before the supermarket arrived.
I know my town may not be typical, but because it's fairly isolated it makes an interesting study in local market forces.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself