Leeds locals react to the announcement that Clintons on Commercial Street will be closing and discuss their current shopping habits.
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00:00 I think with the pandemic a lot of people's shopping habits did change but
00:04 also for disabled people it changed a long time before that because a lot of
00:08 high street stores even the ones that say they're accessible are not very
00:11 accessible so for me personally things like Clinton's yeah I used to shop there
00:15 but I won't miss it now because I'd go in and I'd be afraid of knocking all the
00:18 candles over because everything's so close together everything would be out
00:21 of reach I won't be able to find it but I think in terms of greeting cards as
00:25 well they're kind of a dying art anyway a lot of people don't buy them so it's
00:29 really sad people are going to lose their jobs I think it talks a lot about
00:33 the failure of the high streets which the really sad part for me is that
00:37 impacts and smaller businesses because if you're not coming in for the big
00:40 businesses you're not going to be there for the small businesses we used to go
00:43 me and my wife used to go to a coffee shop a small business all the time but
00:48 we don't come into the town center anymore because it's so difficult in the
00:50 wheelchair it's missing so many of the shops that we used to go to so it has a
00:54 knock-on effect on the smaller businesses as well when the big
00:57 businesses close I don't think the closure will affect me too much but is
01:01 really sad that we're losing lots of high street stores because as you look
01:06 around Leeds City Centre there's more and more of these shops closing and
01:11 nobody's taking them on so what do we do I have shopped out here seen as it's
01:17 closing down but I tend to buy my greetings cards online because I like to
01:20 personalize them so to be honest and I think it's a good thing it is closing
01:25 down it was quite expensive that's just my personal opinion obviously there are
01:29 a lot of options out there now I think the online market is a lot better for
01:34 people to buy personalize get them delivered especially the next day my
01:40 daughter like just bump in and again just get something and run off I usually
01:47 go and it's nice when you just walk into the shop and just see and touch it's a
01:53 different feeling whether you're gonna buy it online well it's also nice to
01:58 buy online sometimes but it's different experience when you go to the shop and
02:02 buy something seeing some clothes some shops closing it's really sad because
02:09 just then you will feel the places have been empty and you're used to something
02:15 being there for years and then suddenly it's just closed it's sad to hear I think
02:20 that it's an event going to a shopping like you know place you know with like
02:24 your partner or or you know with your family or whatever and in terms of
02:29 shopping cards I actually feel like they're a little bit of a scam to be
02:33 honest because they're so expensive and it is a shame because things like you
02:39 know things like shopping online and stuff does make it a lot more accessible
02:42 and a lot more easy to just send cards to like family members in different you
02:47 know cities and stuff like that it's more convenient really normally I do shop
02:52 online but there's certain things that I would you know going to shop to get like
02:58 cards and some some other gifts like that yes