"Roland Perry" wrote in message

In message , at 14:44:28 on
Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Recliner remarked:
Every "traditional" shop near where I live, be it a corner shop or
in one of the several parades, is still open as a shop. They aren't
generally selling groceries any more (apart from a few specialist
deli's) but they are selling something.

I wonder how many of those are estate agents or bank/building society
offices? And, of course, you now have mobile phone stores, pizza
delivery outfits, etc.

One of the odd things is that my town has only one mobile phone shop
(Carphone Warehouse) and it is literally the shop furthest from the
centre. There must be some retail database that all the phone
companies use, to choose new sites, which scores the place too low.

There aren't many estate agents, but plenty of banks and building
societies. All of these need staff, however.

That's what I meant when I said that it's these 'new' types of retailers
that are employing extra staff, while supermarkets need less staff per
pound of sales.