In case you did not read the comments under the recent blog report on Stroll In…
Andy noticed an interesting development on the planning website. The old QS shop on High Street is going to become a Savers.
Savers have over 230 stores in the UK. They are a discount chain that sells health, beauty, household goods and medicines, rather like Superdrug. They appear to have the same parent company as Superdrug.
But before anything happens the premises needs planning permission for a new shop front.
A few doors away from a long established pharmacist!
So if Savers are going in there, who is going in “Stroll-in”? Checked the planning website and there is nothing in there since the original plan for the conversion a year or so ago.
It would make a fab Cafe Rouge ?
I wrote to Cafe Rouge a year ago asking them if they would consider coming to Abingdon. I never received a reply. I write this from Centre Parcs, where I will be dining at a Cafe Rouge tonight!
Hi Sasha, just been to Cafe Rouge in Oxford this afternoon,
predictable, consistently good experience made all the better by converting our Tesco club card points to four times the value of a cafe rouge bill, alas, like you i’ve written to them severe times about coming here too ,perhaps a mass approach is needed?
I’m not saying that cafe rouge would not be welcome, or indeed a great use of those premises…. But it IS only bought-in, preprepared, reheated dishes…so I was told by a waitress I once knew. But agree.. . it, or similar would still be a welcome edition.
I wonder…who ever goes in, would they be obliged to be part of the BID….? Does anyone know what’s happening with the BID?
it’s great that a national chain is interested in taking on one of Abingdon’s vacant shops but has chossen this rather than one of the refurbished units in the precinct.
Different type of store simon – their company’s business model is about out of town retail centres – they’re basically a lower price point diy store