Chippenham Town Center is Cheap and Tacky

Am I alone in thinking that Chippenhams Friday and Saturday Markets are becoming an outlet for Cheep Low Grade Tat!

Yes I know we have a couple of stalls selling their "Farmers market" style produce, but I am refering to the stalls that sell, masses of cheap clothes, mobile phone cases and covers, cheap ear rings and similar outlets.

Maybe Im just being a Snob, but this is not the image I think we should be seeing in a Wiltshire Market Town.

We should have business and stall holders that will encourage people to visit the town centre, not those that make the town center look cheap and tacky. This is what it currently looks like to me!

By mjhudston at 08:46 on 01/10/11

Has Oriental Aroma shut? I drove past last week and whilst waiting at the traffic lights on Station Hill, it looked as though it has closed?

By locallaura at 10:40 on 03/10/11
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Firstly market stalls have always sold that kind of thing, many wealthy Asian businessmen started by selling high volume low priced clothing. In fact I seem to remember reading that the guy that founded New Look started with a market stall and now they have hundreds of outlets selling high volume, cheap clothes so there must be a demand for it. If you want M&S or Waitrose products, go to M&S or Waitrose!

Secondly, Oriental Aroma closed a few months ago to concentrate on their larger premises in Wootton Bassett. The premises in Station Hill is soon to re-open as another Indian Restaurant.

By chippersdip at 20:53 on 03/10/11
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I think the Chippenham market is pretty decent, the food bit sells some lovel deli-type foods. Yes there are plenty of stalls selling tat but what market doesn't?

Another Indian?! I love a curry but the town centre already has at least four!

By Lois_Avery at 11:11 on 04/10/11
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