Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.
Car brains ruining everything, and particularly main street.
Time for a letter to the council.
Out of all the ‘we must go back to the fifties’ screeching I’ve hears… none of it has been towards how cars destroyed mainstreet and how people could used to go to a corner store run and owned by a guy everyone knew. Hell, my grandad ran a store literally on the square for thirty years and not one mention at how the big box trends have destroyed that alongside zoning preventing suburbia from legally having those corner stores. I mean, christ-almighty. Suburbia wouldn’t be quite so bad if yo ucould have some light commercial in there. Not a lot, but enough where every mile or so were the kind of places one could walk to.
I’m astounded at the amount of opposition in the comments.
Closing your storefront on Main St and rerouting people through what I can only assume to be the entrance near the parking lot is pedestrian-hostile behaviour. When I go downtown, it’s to shop, not to know which stores have parking lots nearby.
Yep and a street with dead storefronts increasingly becomes a dead street.
There is some context here that I feel like you’re not adding.
Look, I’m 41 and have chosen to have never even had a drivers liscense. I’m the most fuck cars kinda guy you can get.
This is a stretch. “CARS ARE RUINING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE STORES USE DIFFERENT SET OF DOORS DURING THE WEEK!”
C’mon man. Cars cause cancer. Theres drunk drivers. There’s text and drivers. Distracted drivers. Idiot drivers. There’s global pollution. There’s wars fought over oil to power cars. There’s planned economic blight as cities are designed to keep nondrivers seen as low class. Like they can’t afford to drive, or they had their liscense suspended, and thus should be looked down on, and not given career opertunities. Thus being forced into low income neighborhoods.
All that to chose from for why fuck cars…and you went with “I have to enter from the other side of the store now”???
Meanwhile i’m 43 and have never been ABLE to drive because of vision issues, and moving the entryway in this manner essentially is a giant middle finger to me. ‘Here we’re shuttering the entryway that has nice safe walkable areas in and out and GO TO THE LOADING DOCK.’
There’s planned economic blight as cities are designed to keep nondrivers seen as low class.
A city that allows pedestrian-oriented entrances to be closed like this is an example of that.
This is probably because of theft. Cheaper to have staff at the carpark entry. Looks like it’s pretty easy to wander into the Bunnings and grab and run.
@Pregnenolone Then don’t have a shop on main street
I’d argue that’s victim blaming.
Look I don’t like corpos and car brains either but it’s called Main St for a reason.
@Pregnenolone I have trouble seeing the giant corp as the victim
Would you prefer they just close entirely and only sell online, maybe on Amazon?
