Out of town shopping centres

[Katy]

Just wondered if when shopping you prefer to go to and out of town shopping centre such as the trafford centre, Merry Hill, Meadow hall, Lakeside, Bluewater etc or to the town centre, and if you think that the town near you have declined due to the shopping centre opening or whether it has benefited.

Its something we discussed in Geography and i thought it was an interesting point.

[Tori]

i hate the trafford centre with a passion. i much prefer going to places like manchester becuase there i can actually breathe and theres normally more to see that a shopping centre built on a field in the middle of nowhere, i also don't approve becuase it takes people away from small traditional shops in cities, so they have to close down becuase no- one goes there anymore

[Angeltigger]

i have to go out of town- to get to Bluewater..

[annaz]

I usually go to the Dundas Arcade, Cleveland Shopping Centre or highstreet shops

[Chloe-Elise]

We did Bluewater in Geography last year. I've never been but it looks quite cool. From what we learned, I think the towns around it delined beacuse less people started going to them, but there is the plus of having more people in the area. I prefer going to smaller shops, I think they are more personal and theres sometimes better shops :)

[annaz]

If I go to high street shop it's usually Claires Accsessories or something like that, shopping centres are very crowded these days.

[JustJodi]

MALL OF AMERICA IN Minnisota ( USA) has several hotels, an amusement park , doctors clinic, law offices, and plus 520 stores(shops), the mall employs 12 thousand people.. Iam including the link so you guys could see the mall, it is sooo HUGE, http://www.bloomingtonmn.org/mallofamerica_stores.asp OH OH OH not only that 4200 couples were married in the Mall of America since it opened Aug. 1992:wub:

We went a year ago, there is NO WAY you can see every thing in one day, you need at least 3 days to see the entire mall ..

[shannisrules]

i usually go to the local high street or if i want to do big shopping or shopping with my friends i usually go to the trafford center

[Tori]

i hate the trafford centre- the shops aren't as big as manchester, so i prefer to go to manchester.

[di marco]

i go to bluewater a lot, my local high street is a dump, i hate going there!

[Angeltigger]

well my high street is the same length of time to get to bluewater- bluewater has the shops i want

[di marco]

well my high street is the same length of time to get to bluewater- bluewater has the shops i want

really? how longs it take you to get to bluewater?

[Angeltigger]

:cheer: 45 mins to get to bluewater..- it used to take an hour and the near shopping mall is 20 mins away

[di marco]

:cheer: 45 mins to get to bluewater..- it used to take an hour and the near shopping mall is 20 mins away

oh, i just thought faversham had a high street thats all

[Em]

My high streets a dump too, so we go to Merry Hill in Dudley.

I love shopping centres, mainly because if its raining i dont get wet! (well,more fussy about my hair than me!)

The best is the metro centre in newcastle, but there is one outside Edinburgh, called Almondvale,which is great as it has a seperate centre pruely for designer outlets.

[Angeltigger]

oh, i just thought faversham had a high street thats allIt just a town- so it have a libary, Banks, pubs, woolworths local, meat shops, newsagrents no shops that have clothes like Nexts and stuff- i need to go to Canterbury for them? but it not very good so i have to wait until i go to bluewater which is not that often

[samantha nixon]

i mainly go romford just because it is easy to get to and its got ice skating, cinema, bowling and places to hang out, but i also go lakeside

[di marco]

It just a town- so it have a libary, Banks, pubs, woolworths local, meat shops, newsagrents no shops that have clothes like Nexts and stuff- i need to go to Canterbury for them? but it not very good so i have to wait until i go to bluewater which is not that often

yeh i know its just a town, but most towns have a high street

[Angeltigger]

well not Faversham it just a quiter town

[di marco]

well not Faversham it just a quiter town

oh ok, i just thought it used to thats all

[Angeltigger]

maybe it did before i came along but not any more- have to to canterbury or sittingborne to do my shopping

[Angel_Chico]

Of course it never had a high street. Have you seen the size of the place. =P

[Angeltigger]

Yeah i have- like i live there- it never had a high street

[Jojo]

I prefer going to cribbs causeway than to the town centre/city centre shopping near me, mostly due to parking, with my brood in tow. But generally I don't like shopping anyway (my hubby thinks i should have been male :rotfl: )

[Chloe O'brien]

we have princes street which is about a mile long street full of shops in the city centre of edinburgh, there is also a massive shopping centre about twenty miles outside town called mccarthur glen and almondvale shopping centre

[pookie1968uk]

i mostly go to the town centre. ours is quite good and has most of the shops you need. there isnt an out of town shopping centre that close to us, so we would only go there occasionally as a day out.

[di marco]

Of course it never had a high street. Have you seen the size of the place. =P

ok you dont have to say it like that! i was just saying cos i live near there and my gran used to go there quite a lot and i swear she said there was a high street

[Katy]

thanks for all your responses. Im not to keen on shopping either. I don agree with what most of yopu are saying and it helps loads. I myself personally prefer to go to the city Centre but not the local high street because i swear Chavs enter by the bus load. Manchester is much nicer.

[willsmummy]

We go to Cribbs Causeway too, but I hate shopping also so neither appeal to me. Bath town centre is good if I am minus Will, as there are lots of little independant retailers that sell unusual things.

I hate out of town places though, as they are just so formulaic, and they are a sodding nightmare at Christmas. I did all my shopping in a little place between here and Bristol called Keynsham, and I got everything I needed from there. And the parking was only 25p!

[Jojo]

You are so like me Willsmummy - if I can avoid shopping, I will. All of my Christmas shopping I did online, although this was mostly due to the fact that i was enormously pregnant.

There aren't any really good places to go shopping, and as Cribbs is only an hour drive for me, I find it easier - if I go there though its for the day.

[willsmummy]

Cribbs is about an hour from me too. I was v preganant the Christmas before, and I went into Bath 2 Saturdays before Christmas when I was already a week overdue! I hoped the stress would start labour, but Will didn't make an apearance until a week later!

When I first met my husband, he was well chuffed because I'd rather spend Saturday afternoon in the pun watching football/rugby than trawling round shops!

[willsmummy]

Oops, obviously pun should be pub!

[Jojo]

lol - I think I've found my twin :rotfl: I hate crowds, hate shopping, if I have to go, I am in, get what I want and then out again as quick as possible. Would much rather stay in with a beer/wine watching the rugby than anything else.

I can't stand trapsing round town for hours on end, looking at nothing in particular. I'm normally the one pushing the pushchair through the high street at very high speeds!!

[willsmummy]

The other thing is that shops are so effing pushchair unfriendly. I am always ramming peoples legs and knocking things over. I will have to saty in when baby no 2 is born as we'll need a double buggy, and there will be no hope then!

[Katy]

im like you two as well. Thats why i prefer the town centre you can go in get what you need and escape quickly. There are much better things i like to do that look round shops. And im really impatiant as well so waiting in queues for things and car parking spaces really winds me up.

[Tori]

thanks for all your responses. Im not to keen on shopping either. I don agree with what most of yopu are saying and it helps loads. I myself personally prefer to go to the city Centre but not the local high street because i swear Chavs enter by the bus load. Manchester is much nicer.

you mean stockport town centre?

[Angeltigger]

yeah high streets are bad with push chairs as there are loads of steps- for some shops- but shopping malls are all flat. they have lifts

[Katy]

yeah i did mean Stockport town centre. That more of a high street though.