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Thursday Doors: Chabanais – empty shopfronts
More doors from Chabanais, but there’s a theme this week and it’s one I’ve written about before – the demise of the independent local retailer in rural France.
Thirty or forty years ago, the town could probably have supported two boucheries, but no longer..
I found the English sign in this window a little anomalous:
Other trades have also struggled to keep going:
Thursday Doors 31 October 2019
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We have a lot of those here, too, unfortunately. They seem so forlorn.
They made me think of Sedan, but I guess empty storefronts are everywhere these days.
Sadly this is an all too common scene in so many places. A sign of the changing times I guess.
We lost the only cobbler for miles around recently. He operated in a basement space and it was always so fascinating to watch him work. Your post brought made me think of him and yes, so many lost small shops everywhere.