| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply - diversion signs to be moved this evening | |
| Posted by: | David Lesniak | |
| Date/Time: | 31/10/20 07:09:00 |
| "shops were doing a great deal of home deliveries" No surprise Tom misses the irony here. Or is it tone deafness? Or lack of empathy? Too many choices... One - shops which did pivot to home delivery had to re-invent or work overtime to provide services they otherwise might not have. Translation: less trade, more labor, less profit. Sorry, that's based on normal trading conditions. With COVID there will be no profit this year as traders are all struggling to make up for lost time with perhaps more lost time coming. Two - given traders have to pivot to deliveries to help offset loss in trade, how precisely do you expect traders to deliver as Chiswick closes its streets? To make this question extra challenging, cargo bikes are not an acceptable answer. You must answer by not insisting traders spend an extra cent at a time where there isn't one. Side note on that new cargo bike delivery service: it's not every day, and not every hour. Nor can it deliver hot food or perishables. Good news is multi-nationals and e-tail can do whatever you want whenever you want but that doesn't help local traders now does it? |