Re: All "Scope" shops to close?



"Troy Steadman" <troysteadman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>Scope used to be "The Spastics Society". My wife works as a volunteer
>in one of their shops and says that *all* their national shops are to
>close - that it was in the newspapers over the weekend.

>Can't find anything on the Internet. If I can buy jeans in Tesco for
>£3, shoes for £12, and everything else I want on Ebay, I can't see us
>rushing out to buy overpriced tat in a Charity Shop.

>Is it true and if so is it a trend?

Cancer Research shops tend to have a lot of new giftware in them these days.
This then undercuts other giftware shops in the high street. I assume they
find this more profitable than second hand. But on the other hand there are
about 5 other charity shops within 200yds of them in our town, and a new one
is due to
open in a couple of weeks.



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