“Cats R Us,
I hadn't actually considered that possibility. The boots were clean and almost new. Presumably these people wouldn't buy any shoes or boots from a charity shop either. Your URL didn't work for me, so I don't know what the link was.”

“I don't think the staff have helped the situation, there has been a few times when I have walked past and seen more than one of them sat outside in the camping chairs having a smoke.

Wouldn't be so bad if they stood outside one at a time or even if they walked over into the square would be better.

Not very professional if you ask me! If I owned the place I wouldn't stand for my staff smoking right outside the shop and more than one at a time is not a good look.”

“25 negatives probably because you wear someone elses shoes bought for 40p.
Ewwwwwwwhttp://tinyurl.com/70p9”

“Blimey! 25 negative marks. Someone doesn't like the truth. The staff in there in recent years have known very little about anything. Although, to be fair, I had a very similar experience at Cotswold at the water park near Cirencester a couple of years ago. If you can't fit into the boots that they stock, it must be your fault.”

“Another problem is the lack of any medium to long term plan.
I have no problem with Go Outdoors, in fact, they are excellent. The problem is that they were allowed to take over a DIY store where obviously, you needed a car. Go Outdoors customers don't. So instead of coming into town, browsing around a few shops, going for a coffee etc, we just breeze into the free car park, mooch around, buy what we want, then leave, to either go home, or to another out of town development.
We must have free centre parking, for say two hours. This would stop workers using shoppers spaces.
It would also entice businesses into the centre. We need other rates subsidies to encourage new start-ups to have the courage to invest. In short, some sort of plan, instead of lurching from one piecemeal idea to another.”

“It's always sad when we read of yet another family run business going under. I didn't visit Oswald Bailey's often, but when I did the staff were always helpful and friendly. Go Outdoors may well have been the final straw but I believe the bigger problem was simply being in the wrong place. Hardly anybody with the exception of the dossers and OAP's visit King's Square these days as there is nothing to entice them in.”

“Mr Paul James ,as queen said ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST,how many more before you wake up.”

“I doubt the numerous Outdoor shops at Glouocester Quays are helping........”

“I have a funny and true story to tell you about the last time that I bothered to go into that store:
About 16 to 18 months ago I was looking to buy some comfortable hiking boots, not too high on the ankle and with a reasonably flexible sole. I looked at the ones on offer, but found all of them to be too narrow, as I have wide feet. I tried on all of the ladies' boots and all of the childrens' as well (as I am a size 4), but to no avail. I complained to the assistant, a young lad of about 18, that none of their boots would fit me and why didn't they stock boots to fit their potential customers instead of expecting their potential customers to fit into the boots that they stocked? He advised me to buy men's boots as (supposedly) they are made wider. Men's sizes start at size 7! I'm not making this up.

As it happened, I found a lovely pair of comfortable boots at a jumble sale in mid November 2010, at a cost of 40p, and I'm still wearing them.”

“Travel to any city within range of Gloucester, Worcester, Bristol, Birmingham. they are all thriving bustling centres so why is Gloucester dying slowly while similar places are thriving?”