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Waterlooville Precinct’s Wright Choice Family Butcher, which opened in the Summer of 2015, has closed. Wright Choice took over from C Knight & Son which closed in 2015.
The butcher, Gary Wright, cited large overheads including rent and rates as the reason for closing the shop. Gary is still trading, and is running a mobile van service for raw/cooked meats as well as the Hog Roast hire. Gary can be contacted on the same number to order, 07980 405819, and sends his thanks to all those that supported him over the last year.
It’s getting ridiculous!
Bye bye Waterlooville
(again)
oh i like that butchers
It will get a new butcher there eventually?
Good luck to Gary.
Shame our council is not interested in improving, nor even maintaining, our town centre.
Oh no, poor Gary ð, our town is slowly disappearing
Someone contributed to a post a while back regarding the plans for Waterlooville town centre. It’s not all doom and gloom but don’t think it will improve anytime soon.
How long until it’s a estate agents?
What a shame! Nice bloke and the meat is lovely. Another shop to shut ð¢
Margaret Cooper
Another one bites the dust!
Thats why mist are closing with the rates and so forth. DO HBC want waterlooville to be a ghost town like Havant!
Yes
Greedy councils and landords are killing Waterlooville… and in fact most other retail areas. They don’t care though.
Jane Holt
I know my parents use the butchers there and have done for many years. They always said that the guy ran a great little shop and they wouldn’t go anywhere else.
Unfortunately the local government is totally oblivious to the fact that they are responsible for the demise of our small towns and villages. Just cut the business rates and encourage people to set up small businesses.
People need to use the little shop we have only owned slater’s plaice what was royals since March and as it so quite and not making much money were having to think about closing too we now even open at 8 am for breakfast rolls to help pay the bills but the money is not coming in were running out of ideas and time and the big one money
I’ve only just found out you do gluten free. If you shout about it on the Gf/Coeliac facebook pages I hope it will drum up good business for you. There isn’t a good gf chippy in the area, I had been traveling down to Portsmouth or Fareham.
That was a lovely butchers shop..ð¡ð¡
Lower the rent and rates it’s getting ridiculous
Wendy Almond
Waterlooville used to be a lovely little town centre….it’s a bloody mess now…..full of charity shops….coffee shops, nail bars etc etc….Greedy Councils and Landlords are to blame without a doubt. Good luck Gary, sorry to see you go xx
What a shame – he was very good
Like most people l believe it’s all down to the ridiculous rental/rates etc retailers have to pay. Some gormless no neck pillock sits in his office rubbing his hands together making up stupid costs without thinking of the shop owner. HBC … dimwits ð¡ð
We, as consumers, are just as responsible for places closing when we want to park right outside just one shop which does everything. Interwebbything shopping is also to blame.
I think it is called progress, but has killed towns and villages in England.
Why does Waterlooville need four large supermarkets? Especially ones which do a bit of everything and even then not particularly well.
Planners care little for those who cannot drive to an out of centre outlet, or the elderly, unless it is more flats of course.
As I have often said, knock it all down and start again with decent individual shops and free car parks
We may have lost Gary in the shop but he is still trading as a mobile butchers, you can phone through your order and he will deliver.
As has been pointed out many times, often by About Waterlooville.
Havant council do not own the shop, rent is nothing to with them, it is set by absentee landlords who probably have no ideea, or care where Waterlooville is apert from an entry on a spreadsheet
Likewise rates, these are set by UK government not HBC. HBC collect them on behalf of UK Gov, they do not set the amount
Just saying, no point whinging about the council, it is beyond there control
Could be a good idea if Gary posted a sign in his old shop ref delivery & phone, assuming he still has access of course
He should have become a charity that is the only way small shops can exist in Waterlooville
If he was a charity the overheads would be reduced.
I don’t think Havant Borough Council give a toss about Waterloovile sadly. All the money and time seems to go on Havant and Emsworth.
Use it or loose it.
The trouble is as I have been told the small shops get charged the same business rates as asda! But also the landlord wants to convert the Wellington way arcade shops to housing so is increasing rents we now have a town of charity shops and estate agents
End of era my dad worked down mr butch next to tricorn car park ,,with Charlotte street market next door with George fruit and veg in the 80s that shop was busy all day taking 10k on a Saturday those were the days miss the ugly sedy tricorn but it had character âï¸ Butcher shops have been taken over by hyper markets
This is criminal. Another excellent independant trader being forced out. This should be be stopped. We are a town centre with just about every charity shop, estate agents, banks and little else. Someone on this blog mentions more flats in Wellington Way. Will this mean more businesses being forced out. Not on…