Our council gives us 2 hours free parking, an adjacent one gives you an hour.
I still prefer to clothes and food shopping in person, so that, for food, I can replan my menu plan on the spot, if a crucial ingredient is missing and can make other changes on the spot as well. The same with clothes, I can try them on and a 2 hour trip to the shops means you get your clothes and can wear them far faster than ordering them online, and then returning them.
I think Charity shops are now a draw for a town centre, rather than a sign of closed shops. This afternoon a friend and I were discussing which of two local towns was best for charity shops.
Generally I dislike out of town shopping centres, too impersonally, too big and with a limited range of outlets. I use a town centre supermarket and while I am there I will also visit other town centre shops, get my hair done, see the dentist, wander round the Charity shops, all within a couple of hundred yards of the supermarket and none requiring any extra driving.
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