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Independent Retailer Month: Should local shops get more help?
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26/07/2024
We speak to the people of Cardiff about the city’s independent shops, and whether more needs to be done to keep them going.
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I feel like, yeah, 100%, I know loads of small businesses around here, a couple of my friends
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start small businesses as well. I just feel like it makes starting, you know, like you
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said, we've got loads of big brands.
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Yeah, well, I'm literally heading off to the Coors Canaff shop now to pick up some cheese.
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So yeah, let's go to a lot of 100 shops and stuff, and pubs and bars. So yeah, very much
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so.
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I live in Liverpool, and you've got a similar mix of a lot of the big places, but you've
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got the small indie places. I just think in order for them to keep going, people have
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to visit them, you know, especially like independent bookshops.
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Cardiff has plenty of independents, but walking down some of the arcades, which have long
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been the best place to find them, you can't keep count of all the empty shopfronts. Some
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like Hobo's, Wally's Cadellicatessent, or Spillers Records have been here for decades.
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There's so many come and go, and people in Cardiff say they want to see more help for
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small businesses.
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The thing is, I think it's just, I think the big thing to it is obviously money. With the
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cost of living and everything, it's a big one, you know. I'm not very educated in that
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kind of aspect, you know, I'm only young, but I don't think I'd ever try to do anything
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like that. The sole reason being is money, I think.
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Yeah, it would be nice, yeah, of course. Or like a small independent company. Yeah, of
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course I would, yeah. Yeah, it would be nice. But yeah, the state of the high street now,
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you know, I think there's more clothes shops than there is Uber now, so yeah, something
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needs to change.
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I mean, the arcades has had a couple of losses recently. There's always new stuff popping
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up, so I wouldn't say it's dying, it's maybe struggling a little bit.
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Local shops make a city what it is. They make it unique and different to cities around them,
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and the people of Cardiff say they love our independent retailers and want to see more
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all around the city.
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You've got Catey's, you've got, you know, Roast, all those areas. The small business
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is nice to support them, especially the local people as well. And yeah, you would rather
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shop there. It could be a little bit more expensive, but yeah, I suppose these big stores
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are taking over, aren't they? But you've seen a lot of shops closed down now, so, due to
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the internet, is it, I suppose? Yeah.
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Well, I don't live in Cardiff, but I'm only here for work this week, but I think the independent
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shops, I mean, we've been looking specifically, so if I want a coffee, I've been trying to
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find somewhere independent. I've just bought some Welsh cakes from an independent place
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in the market that was recommended, so I think, you know, small business is really, really
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important.
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I think Cardiff is unique, yeah. You know, you go to a small shop and you look whatever
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they have to offer, and whatever, I know perhaps there could be, you know, less, some shop
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minds, they open and they think they could charge a bit less, but they're not. It's worth
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a shop sometimes, they're more expensive, but that's how it goes, anyway.
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