Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "serving the local community" is a bit rich too. A > 'newsagent' is as capitalist as any other > enterprise, out to make a profit from the local > punters flogging them fags and booze and assorted > sundries. > > So-called gentrification isn't the problem for > these types of business. The biggest issues are 1) > nobody pays for 24 hour old hard copy news in > print any more, 2) nobody buys specialist > magazines any more because the internet covers all > bases, 3) smoking is banned and is a dying art > (literally), 4) young people today have better > thkngs to do than go to the corner shop, buy some > beer and stand outside drinking it, 5) old people > can buy their beer cheaper and just as easily at a > 24 hr supermarket etc etc > > All the advantages a convenience store like this > once had have gone but it isn't because of > gentrification. Oh dear! I love to read a hard copy of a newspaper everyday. And what do you mean about 'old people'?