What businesses every small town/ village needs
Discussion
softtop said:
There is no money in a chippy and there is a local takeaway already that delivers pizzas and this is where the money is.
To be fair a chippy needs the right location and good food. I've seen a couple close down because of this. If you get it right yes it can be a gold mine.User name said:
peterperkins said:
An eastern european car wash.. They could provide the security patrols as well.
Went past one quite a while ago called "Perfect Hand Job"Didn't like the look of the large sweaty Turkish gent on duty so carried on past.
Our village population is around 3,000 people.
We have 3 (very good) pubs, a butcher, 2 corner shops, a GP surgery, a small Boots, a Post Office and a coffee shop.
The village could do with a takeaway, although deliveries are available from the nearest town and one of the pubs does takeaway fish and chips.
We have 3 (very good) pubs, a butcher, 2 corner shops, a GP surgery, a small Boots, a Post Office and a coffee shop.
The village could do with a takeaway, although deliveries are available from the nearest town and one of the pubs does takeaway fish and chips.
48k said:
Have you built it yet?
How about now?
Something my village and the surrounding villages could definitely do with. We already have an informal "call tree" via FB when dodgy vans and the like arrive in a village, it's amazing how quickly word gets around to neighbouring villages. It's equally amazing how many people leave lawnmowers out, sheds unlocked etc. It's also equally, EQUALLY, amazing just how brazen your common or garden opportunists are especially in rural areas. Last week news went round of a burglary where they gained entry by smashing a window in broad daylight whilst the lady popped out on the school run. Uniformed patrols would be very well received I'm sure. The challenges are going to be things like the potential for confrontation and having no actual powers to do anything.
I started but a distinct lack of images made it a PITA. I was then distracted by mates coming over and forcing me to drink cold beer on a hot day! How about now?
Something my village and the surrounding villages could definitely do with. We already have an informal "call tree" via FB when dodgy vans and the like arrive in a village, it's amazing how quickly word gets around to neighbouring villages. It's equally amazing how many people leave lawnmowers out, sheds unlocked etc. It's also equally, EQUALLY, amazing just how brazen your common or garden opportunists are especially in rural areas. Last week news went round of a burglary where they gained entry by smashing a window in broad daylight whilst the lady popped out on the school run. Uniformed patrols would be very well received I'm sure. The challenges are going to be things like the potential for confrontation and having no actual powers to do anything.
I've just set up a Wix account to do a simple rendering. It is a very rubbish website and I wouldn't dream of going live with something like this, but it gets the basic message across.
If anyone is interested I'll do a proper one.
https://julianph.wixsite.com/pcpolicing
Cheers
anonymous said:
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Ghurkas have no fear of anyone, they also have a very strong sense of duty, if their job is to guard and prtect then that is exactly what they will do.They are exceptionally good at this type of work and as you say are very polite and have great discipline.
I feel sorry for any criminals who under estimate them
dacouch said:
anonymous said:
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Ghurkas have no fear of anyone, they also have a very strong sense of duty, if their job is to guard and prtect then that is exactly what they will do.They are exceptionally good at this type of work and as you say are very polite and have great discipline.
I feel sorry for any criminals who under estimate them
Its a great idea potentially but is there demand and will anyone pay for it?
On a recent business programme a guy successfully started up a private rubbish collection round for people who needed collections more than every 2 weeks. it got a lot of stick, more for the fact people felt the Council should be paying for/doing this but that just generated publicity and people soon started paying £25 a month for it.
This seems like a similar principle but where does the money come from? Individuals or maybe sub contracting to the Police/Councils? (Don't the Police have 'Specials' who do something similar?). Communities don't buy/pay together.
It also needs thinking through in terms of what powers they have and what when the poor criminals feel they have been assaulted and sue?
On a recent business programme a guy successfully started up a private rubbish collection round for people who needed collections more than every 2 weeks. it got a lot of stick, more for the fact people felt the Council should be paying for/doing this but that just generated publicity and people soon started paying £25 a month for it.
This seems like a similar principle but where does the money come from? Individuals or maybe sub contracting to the Police/Councils? (Don't the Police have 'Specials' who do something similar?). Communities don't buy/pay together.
It also needs thinking through in terms of what powers they have and what when the poor criminals feel they have been assaulted and sue?
48k said:
Frimley111R said:
Its a great idea potentially but is there demand and will anyone pay for it?
A quick Google suggests there are several already in operation, with householders paying between £2 and £4 per week.An undertakers.
This will do very well when the stress of owning a small business finally catches up with the poor owners.
I would not touch a retail business anywhere unless you have something that no one else can provide.
Even if you find that and your successful someone will just copy you and it will hurt your profits.
I had a retail business for cheap toiletries. It was very successful.
But when the council allowed two supermarkets to be build at either end of the town it just killed it. This also killed the smaller supermarket who was already in the town.
Staff would come in and price check us to then undercut most of the offers we had.
Oh and customers are not loyal. You may get one or two but if they can get something 10p cheaper you won't see them for dust.
Plus it was free parking in their car parks. Back then they had to pay to park in the town centre so that is another nail in the retail coffin.
Another huge issue is all the big suppliers we use to deal with closed down. Firms could not beat supermarket prices and folded.
When your buying say a pack of soap in a pack of 12 but the supermarket can buy a crate and hold it in their warehouse the prices they get for buying a crate compared to a pack makes all the difference. They can undercut you but still make a higher profit.
But what was an eye opener was when we decided to give up on retail. Everything was reduced and we were out the door. Customers were stating "why are you closing" when it was the first time we saw these people since the new supermarkets had opened.
The only thing would be to copy someone else who is not doing a great job.
We had a chip shop in the same town as us which you could smell from miles away as it was that bad. To start a new one and provide a quality product would work well.
But again buying a chip shop is not cheap and trying to start a fresh will cost a fortune especially with all the rule and regulations.
If you have the money to start a retail business PLEASE do something else.
This will do very well when the stress of owning a small business finally catches up with the poor owners.
I would not touch a retail business anywhere unless you have something that no one else can provide.
Even if you find that and your successful someone will just copy you and it will hurt your profits.
I had a retail business for cheap toiletries. It was very successful.
But when the council allowed two supermarkets to be build at either end of the town it just killed it. This also killed the smaller supermarket who was already in the town.
Staff would come in and price check us to then undercut most of the offers we had.
Oh and customers are not loyal. You may get one or two but if they can get something 10p cheaper you won't see them for dust.
Plus it was free parking in their car parks. Back then they had to pay to park in the town centre so that is another nail in the retail coffin.
Another huge issue is all the big suppliers we use to deal with closed down. Firms could not beat supermarket prices and folded.
When your buying say a pack of soap in a pack of 12 but the supermarket can buy a crate and hold it in their warehouse the prices they get for buying a crate compared to a pack makes all the difference. They can undercut you but still make a higher profit.
But what was an eye opener was when we decided to give up on retail. Everything was reduced and we were out the door. Customers were stating "why are you closing" when it was the first time we saw these people since the new supermarkets had opened.
The only thing would be to copy someone else who is not doing a great job.
We had a chip shop in the same town as us which you could smell from miles away as it was that bad. To start a new one and provide a quality product would work well.
But again buying a chip shop is not cheap and trying to start a fresh will cost a fortune especially with all the rule and regulations.
If you have the money to start a retail business PLEASE do something else.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 May 17:38
Sorry to hear of your experience but it sounds like you were in a larger town. My village shop does a roaring trade and of course it's more expensive than the supermarket but it's right in the centre of the village, has a post office, parcel collection point, does a mean home made curry on a Friday and is walkable to by everyone. The nearest supermarket is 5 miles away.
48k said:
Sorry to hear of your experience but it sounds like you were in a larger town. My village shop does a roaring trade and of course it's more expensive than the supermarket but it's right in the centre of the village, has a post office, parcel collection point, does a mean home made curry on a Friday and is walkable to by everyone. The nearest supermarket is 5 miles away.
The town had 4,000 people and it was doing great until the two supermarkets appeared.I visited it a month or two ago and the place is like a ghost town which is very sad.
Even the bank and the post office is closed which seems crazy.
Fantastic to hear your village shop is doing so well and the curry sounds very tempting.
Having the post office and parcel collection is a very smart move.
Hopefully the supermarket will stay 5 miles away
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 May 20:12
hes! Quite a few have mentioned a brothel.
Whilst many will have taken this as little more than a joke, I think it works,.
Does anyone have a good understanding of the legalities of the business?
There was a documentary on recently about a mother and daughter running a brothel in a Northern town, cant remember where tbh.
I just had a very quick look on the net and the first thing I found was: 'it is not a crime to sell sex in a brothel, unless the worker is involved in the management of the business'
So, just as an example, person A owns a 2 bedroom property. Person A resides at said property alone so decides to set up a brothel in the spare bedroom.
Person A finds a prostitute/s who is/are prepared to offer their services 5 nights a week from the spare bedroom splitting costs 50/50.
The prostitute see's an average of 5 clients in an evening at an average cost of £80 per hour.
£400 / 2 X 5 nights a week = £1000 each per week
Legal?
Possible?
I live in an affluent Surrey town with a population of 7000. There is no brothel that I am aware of.
Whilst many will have taken this as little more than a joke, I think it works,.
Does anyone have a good understanding of the legalities of the business?
There was a documentary on recently about a mother and daughter running a brothel in a Northern town, cant remember where tbh.
I just had a very quick look on the net and the first thing I found was: 'it is not a crime to sell sex in a brothel, unless the worker is involved in the management of the business'
So, just as an example, person A owns a 2 bedroom property. Person A resides at said property alone so decides to set up a brothel in the spare bedroom.
Person A finds a prostitute/s who is/are prepared to offer their services 5 nights a week from the spare bedroom splitting costs 50/50.
The prostitute see's an average of 5 clients in an evening at an average cost of £80 per hour.
£400 / 2 X 5 nights a week = £1000 each per week
Legal?
Possible?
I live in an affluent Surrey town with a population of 7000. There is no brothel that I am aware of.
I can imagine, even if it is legal, that planning committees would never approve such a thing. There'd be uproar in the local community, worries about sex pests and perverts etc coming to the area etc. I think this would only work if you kept it very low profile and well out of the sight of the LA.
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