'Ghastly Tesco store is the biggest winner in Eden'
3:12pm Friday 18th April 2008
THE layout of the Eden Shopping centre is probably the best that could be achieved, given that it had to be designed and constructed around the ghastly Tesco building.
If Tesco had participated in the development, and allowed its store to be bulldozed, a much more attractive design could have been planned.
The Tesco building, which has always resembled the KGB headquarters, is now looking increasingly tired and dated.
This eyesore stands as a decaying monument to obstinacy.
For those of us who remember how Tesco's objections scuppered previous development schemes, at considerable cost to the Wycombe taxpayer, it is galling to have to concede that Tesco probably benefits most from the increased footfall past its doors.
It is easy to appreciate that young people, who have money to spend on clothes and accessories, think the new shopping centre is wonderful, but the mix of shops is too heavily biased towards that market.
A big disappointment is Waterstones - a pokey shop apparently crammed with the same best-selling paperbacks that you can find in any supermarket.
If you want any other books, they still have to be ordered.
Surely, a town with a university deserves better.
The rest of the town centre has been left as a dismal retail rump.
White Hart Street, with its closed and boarded up shops, looks as if it anticipates the demolition contractors to move in soon.
The Chilterns Centre is now an irrelevant backwater, which only a necessary visit to the Post Office would entice me to enter.
The shop I really miss is the old M & S store, and specifically its food department. It used to be my nearest food shop, and I walked down there several times a week to buy a few things. The new M&S is a much longer trek.
A usefull addition to the High Street area would be a small food-only supermarket.
To avoid being too depressed by the changes, I now only venture into the town centre once a week to visit the banks or to buy a specific item.
H Garas, Amersham Hill Gardens, High Wycombe
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Rajesh Mullen, South Ken says...
6:22pm Fri 18 Apr 08
Ivor, says...
12:47am Sun 20 Apr 08
The shop I really miss is the old M & S store, and specifically its food department. It used to be my nearest food shop, and I walked down there several times a week to buy a few things. The new M&S is a much longer trek.I could not agree more. The new store is a disaster being too far from the real town centre and the range of food stuffs carried is not up to what the old shop had.
The new supermarket opening across the road in a few months will make the food hall irrelevant. I used to be a regular customer but since the move I have given up with them.
The new shop is just a glass and metal shed not in keeping with their image.
Their old shop is still empty so cant they move back?
smokey, high wycombe says...
7:56am Sun 20 Apr 08
Ivor wrote:because there is a Primark going in there. You will like Primark.
The shop I really miss is the old M & S store, and specifically its food department. It used to be my nearest food shop, and I walked down there several times a week to buy a few things. The new M&S is a much longer trek.I could not agree more. The new store is a disaster being too far from the real town centre and the range of food stuffs carried is not up to what the old shop had. The new supermarket opening across the road in a few months will make the food hall irrelevant. I used to be a regular customer but since the move I have given up with them. The new shop is just a glass and metal shed not in keeping with their image. Their old shop is still empty so cant they move back?
knaz313, high wycombe says...
8:11pm Sun 20 Apr 08
KHALID MIAN
Elmo, High Wycombe says...
10:39am Mon 21 Apr 08
What does you wife think?
I AGREE WITH HIM!
SHUT-UP!
Kadoogan, Wycombe says...
1:02pm Mon 21 Apr 08
I agree with the comment that Eden is too heavily biased towards clothes and accessories, something I pointed out on my first visit. You can't force other types of shops to move in though, but hopefully over time there will be more variety there.
Carlton De Souza, Bowerdean area says...
10:08pm Tue 22 Apr 08
Marmite, HW says...
3:43pm Fri 25 Apr 08
Lo_Wycombe, Bowerdean Rd says...
4:39pm Fri 25 Apr 08
Marmite wrote:or greggs the baker
Personally, I think the extra walk to M&S foodhall is a good thing. Might make some of the obese people in Wycombe lose some weight. Although I do concede they probably shop at Iceland.
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Lo_Wycombe, Bowerdean Rd says...
5:03pm Fri 18 Apr 08
"This is how shops used to look in the '70s" it always gets a laugh
I also agree that the High Street is already looking like a war torn town - has anyone else noticed the hoards of people congregating outside the 99p store?