General Discussion

I have heard it said that if Dawlish has a new supermarket one of its positive side effects will be that it will help increase the amount of trade for the shops in the town centre. I'm trying to work out how that will happen. Can someone tell me please?

The only help I can see is this.
"It will speed up the process of make your mind up time, to be or not to be a trader any longer".

the tesco team said that it will help traders diversify? does that mean shut down?

And then there would be even more empty properties along the Strand and Brunswick to join the Old Post Office. And I thought Dawlish town centre was up for regeneration!

If Dawlish had a "proper" supermarket shoppers would come from surrounding villages and of course they would look round the town walk along the beach etc. The majority of shops in town do not rely on people who go to supermarkets to do their bulk buying

So how many people then treat a visit to the supermarket as a touristic day trip? Visit the supermarket and then go for a stroll along he beach/in the town? I don't think so. All the frozen food would thaw out and in the summer even the fresh food would suffer from the heat if left in a car for too long.

Visit the beach/stroll in the town then go to the supermarket? Slightly more of a possibility (given the need for keeping frozen food frozen and fresh food fresh)but this would still mean that some of the shops in the town could lose out - butcher, baker, greengrocers, florists, convenience stores, chemists etc. What would happen to those?

If Dawlish had a proper Farmers' Market it might also draw people in from surrounding villages plus tourists in the holiday season. This would knock spots of the so called attractions of a supermarket because:
1. All food would be fresh and locally produced.
2. All monies spent would go back into the local economy.