Boscombe Market calling entrepreneurs (From Thisisdorset)
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Boscombe Market calling entrepreneurs
5:00pm Saturday 9th June 2012 in Latest By Stephen Bailey
Market Manager Rod Wilson chats to Damchoe Samye at Boscombe market
Boscombe market is opening itself up to aspiring entrepreneurs with a special deal during Love Your Local Market fortnight.
New traders can take up a stall for just £10 per day from Saturday, June 23, to Saturday July 7.
The offer is also open to existing shop owners who have never operated at Boscombe market before.
The Mary Portas report on High Streets presented to the government called for a “national market day”.
The idea was taken up by the National Federation of Market Traders and that led to Love Your Local Market fortnight.
There has also a been a slight drop in recent trader numbers, particularly because of high petrol prices.
Market manger Rodney Wilson said: “There are at least four traders with shops in Boscombe who started on the market.
“It also creates employment even on a small scale.
“The market is viable – this is not a desperate measure – but we could do with more variety.”
Town centre manager Roger Parker, who is responsible for the market, said he hoped to tap into some entrepreneurial spirit, something the government is calling for during the recession.
Mr Parker said there was “money to be made” and mentioned a recent episode of The Apprentice where toy insects were bought for 60p and sold the same day at a market for £2.99.
He added: “The market is hugely important for Boscombe.”
The market trades on Thursdays and Saturdays and they are the busiest shopping days in the precinct.
There are usually 20-25 stalls, from small gadget stands, to the huge Saturday fruit and veg stall, whose owner gets the stock from London each morning.
Traders need insurance and their own tables.
For full details call 07968 968683 or emailtcm@bournemouth.gov.uk
Comments(8)
BmthNewshound
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7:06pm Sat 9 Jun 12
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Market manger Rodney Wilson said: “There are at least four traders with shops in Boscombe who started on the market.” ......... so traders start on the market and then move into a shop which is opposite to what this scheme is offering.
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Bournemouth Council really hasn’t got a clue about business. Schemes like this are contradictory and just don’t make sense. Rather than being open to existing shop owners the market should be attracting new businesses.
rotcoddam
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9:31pm Sat 9 Jun 12
pete woodley
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9:51pm Sat 9 Jun 12
rotcoddam wrote:I cant see that the market benefits local shops,and what takings they do have, mainly goes out of town.Dorchesters is even worse.
This sad and dismal badly run market should be disbanded all together. Why should hardworking shop owners have to put up with this tatty scruffy disruption twice a week. The market brings in no trade to the shops whatsoever. It simply serves to allow a few amatuer market traders to come and take money from the local businesses.
Phixer
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5:18am Sun 10 Jun 12
rotcoddam wrote:Isn't that the same with any market in towns all over the country? The fact that markets still exist would suggest that your argument is not founded.
This sad and dismal badly run market should be disbanded all together. Why should hardworking shop owners have to put up with this tatty scruffy disruption twice a week. The market brings in no trade to the shops whatsoever. It simply serves to allow a few amatuer market traders to come and take money from the local businesses.
Azphreal
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9:22am Sun 10 Jun 12
portia6
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2:13pm Sun 10 Jun 12
for country towns traditionally.
That said there is nothing wrong
with a bit of competition.
rotcoddam
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7:16pm Sun 10 Jun 12
In the last decade or so non of that is true of most markets. Generally the so called fresh produce is of lamentable quality and priced not much better than many shops. Most of the diy items have been purchased from poundland or similar and the clothes stalls are often getting their stock from primark anyway. so whats the point of a market.
ShuttleX says...
6:18pm Sat 9 Jun 12
Nothing to do with the high rents the Council charge the traders then? I have spoken to a number of traders, and it is the rent that concerns them, not the cost of fuel. In fact I know of three traders that have left Boscombe and gone further afield to other markets. That costs more in fuel, yet the rents are cheaper, and they get more trade.
When was the last time Mr Parker actually bothered to walk round and talk to traders? From what I have been told, the only time you see anybody from the Council side of things, is when they are wanting their rent.
From what I see of this scheme, the shops can come out, pay their tenner and undercut the traders who pay full rent week in, week out. The shops will make their money for those few weeks, then jack it in, leaving the other traders, who are there in all weather, to struggle on.
Typical Council run scheme. Short sighted.