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Swinton Insurance Waterlooville Closing

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Waterlooville’s branch of Swinton Insurance is closing. A sign on the door says the ‘new home’ will be in North End although the branch in North End has been established for a number of years.

Our thanks to Tim for the tip.

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    • I know lots of shops in these areas that are struggling and it’s because everyone can get things far cheaper on the Internet. I also had a shop and I’m glad I’m out of it.

    • Been to Chichester, Winchester & Petersfield in the last few weeks, and they’re lively and bustling. There’s a good community feel about them, and folks look happy to be out. People walking around Waterlooville look as miserable as the town itself ! 😕

    • Urrmmm! Chichester and Winchester are lively and bustling? Well considering that they are cities, cathedral cities, county cities at that and have a number of tourist attractions there would be something wrong if they weren’t! There is no comparison, equally you only have to see the demographics for Petersfield and Emsworth to see why they are successful.

      Sadly Waterlooville has become two centres, the Dukes Walk, Waitrose/Wilkinson and the retail park and the bit in between gets forgotten

    • Petersfield, Emsworth and Chichester have far higher average general earnings for the people living there, so those people are not so likely to be trying to reduce spending and more likely to be in a position to support local retailers. Sad fact is that when employers pay employees low wages, they can’t afford to buy the products the retailers sell, and will hunt around for the lowest prices, which are usually online. Sad fact is that most stuff I buy is not just slightly cheaper online, it’s sometimes half the price.

    • Both retail parks are doing very well, so why are the two retail parks doing well whilst the precinct has gone down the toilet? The retail parks and the precinct have the same demographic, is it fair to say it is more complex than than just the general earnings?

    • Small business are finding it very difficult to survive, all the overheads you have to pay is so high it’s just not worth all the hassle and stress hence why lots of shops close.

    • That is a fair point Steve, my view is that it could be down to the lack of an “anchor” store. The anchor store was once Tesco, then Woolies, then Boots which remains. When Boots was the only chemist available then the footfall to and from would be high and therefore people may have been more inclined to use other shops. However, both ASDA and Waitrose have chemists so there is no need for people to make the trip to Boots, therefore lack of footfall. Just an observation!

  14. Writing was on the wall ages ago.

    I used them for my insurance, speak to a real face, support local shop, employment etc, all the usual reasons

    However there was a smell of urine being extracted over the last few years when I could get same insurance from Swinton on line, with the same company, on line for less

    I used to print the on line Swinton quote off, take it in and they would umm & arr, speak with someone else, then graciously match the quote they had given already me on line

    Not the employees fault of course, but a few pennies I never bothered about, but tens of pounds make me sit up