What will a supermarket mean for Llangollen?<\/p>\n
Between 1997 and 2002 more than 13,000 specialist stores aroundthe UK \u2013 including newsagents, Post Offices, grocers, bakers, butchers – closed. The\u00a0loss of local, independent shops can have serious impacts in terms of access to\u00a0food, particularly for people on lower incomes or those who don\u2019t have use of a car<\/p>\n
Supermarket claims that new stores bring in jobs fail to consider\u00a0the wider picture of independent retailer bankruptcies. A 1998 study by the National\u00a0Retailer Planning Forum (NRPF) examining the employment impacts of 93\u00a0superstore openings between 1991 and 1994 found that they resulted in a net loss of\u00a0more than 25,000 jobs or 276 per store opened<\/p>\n
A Friends of the Earth study of local food schemes found that\u00a0on average just over half of business turnover was returned to the local economy \u2013\u00a0compared to as little as five per cent for supermarkets.<\/p>\n
The distribution systems used by supermarkets and\u00a0the location of out of town stores generate large amounts of traffic. Recent work for\u00a0the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) suggests that car\u00a0use for shopping results in costs to society of more than \u00a33.5 billion per year, fromtraffic emissions, noise, accidents, congestion and accident<\/p>\n
What will a supermarket mean for Llangollen? Less choice \u2013 As local shops close, there will be no choice but to use the supermarket. Between 1997 and 2002 more than 13,000 specialist stores aroundthe UK \u2013 including newsagents, Post Offices, grocers, bakers, butchers – closed. The\u00a0loss of local, independent shops can have serious impacts in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[24,11,80,79,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}