People on the street: Which of Manchester’s shops should be on EVERY HIGH STREET?

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We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the state of British high streets, and which three Manchester businesses should be on every high street in the country.

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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name's Theo Hewson-Bertz and today I'm out

00:03on the streets of Manchester asking people about high streets. Now this time last week

00:07I came out into Manchester and asked people about the declining state of our high streets

00:11and what they wanted to see replace some of the bigger stores that are closing down across

00:15England. The answer was basically a lot of small independent places so today we're pursuing

00:20that. We're asking people to name three businesses here in Manchester that they think should be

00:25on every high street in England and we're going to find out a little bit about why as well.

00:30So let's go see what people have to say. Okay well obviously Fanboy 3. Yeah yeah yeah. Okay

00:35so we would like a Fanboy 3. Everywhere. Everywhere. Yes please. Oh because okay firstly obviously

00:41we're very interested in the hobby of tabletop gaming so having a tabletop gaming store of

00:47that quality everywhere would be incredible but also shops like that operate as like the

00:53heart of a community. Yeah. That's awesome you know. They're places you can hang out and meet

00:58people and socialise. They they replace the ancient need for like a church where as a community

01:04hub. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So like like a shop that like a grain of sand in an oyster creates

01:11a pearl around it. Those kind of shops on high streets would be awesome everywhere I think.

01:16We'll actually say Affleck's Palace 100%. Really? Absolutely love Affleck's Palace. Other than that

01:22there's a place called Gone Fishing Vintage. It's just on Oldham Street there. It's my

01:26friend's shop. Amazing vintage clothing. And that's all I've got really. We like Fred Older

01:31so we're just nipping into there. It's like an arts and craft shop which is cool. But yeah

01:35I'd say those three. It's impossible but if more places in the world could have an Affleck's

01:40place that would be incredible. You know somewhere where smaller retailers or craft people or

01:48designers could get a place to showcase their work in a place where you knew you could always

01:52go and find things that are fresh and original and interesting. And yeah you know that would

01:56be amazing. As someone who is young but absolutely hates online shopping. The disconnect I feel from

02:04my peers and my ability to get stuff of that quality. As someone who doesn't live in Manchester

02:10would be completely resolved if there was one of those where I live.

02:14I just think that's just cooler stuff really. And I think people like those kind of shops

02:18you know like grassroots as well. You get better quality stuff really.

02:23Oh right eighth day. Yeah yeah somewhere that's like it's got different dietary needs but it's

02:31also like ethically really interesting. And yeah yeah somewhere that's got like a chill. I'm

02:38gonna I'm very old to use the word vibe but a chill vibe but also like yeah really really

02:44delicious interesting things to eat. And that's been here for like 50 years. Yeah like like so

02:51companies with that kind of like investment in the community and then staying power. That'd be awesome.

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