Yet another charity shop set for Oxebode with YMCA
The Oxebode is soon going to be home to five charity shops.
When the YMCA store opens next week, it will join four others on the same street in Gloucester city centre.
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NEW ARRIVAL: The YMCA charity shop in the Oxebode next to the Salvation Army shop.
The shop, which used to be in Northgate Street but closed earlier this year, will open on Monday in the former Oswald Bailey store.
The family-owned outdoor clothing and accessories store closed on March 17 after poor trade forced company bosses to take action.
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It had been trading for 23 years.
The YMCA store will sit alongside the Salvation Army, PDSA, Sue Ryder and Cancer Research shops.
District YMCA manager Duncan Albutt said: "We are really looking forward to coming back and opening again in the city.
"We have got staff in there at the moment making it ready for opening. It is starting to take shape."
The shop is also looking for volunteers to help in its running.
Mr Albutt added: "We need willing helpers who have a few hours to spare.
"People just need to drop in for more details."
But Mark Owen, chairman of the Gloucester branch of the Federation of Small Businesses, believes the city centre already contains enough charity shops.
He said: "Gloucester needs another charity shop like it needs a hole in the head.
"We all appreciate they do a great job, raise a lot of money, and it fills an empty unit, but it sends out the wrong message.
"If they are getting offered a reduced rate, why not offer a reduced rate to a proper retailer."
Comments
by TimMessanger
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 7:33PM
“The like the company of the post office at the east end and an office at the west end ;)”
by FreeRadical1
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 5:25PM
“What a foolish quotation from Mark Owen. What does have have against charity shops? Presumably he looks down his nose at them. They help to get unwanted items reused, rather than thrown away, and they allow poorer people to purchase nearly new things at a fraction of the cost of buying new.
I do wonder why the charity shops congregate together in the centre of Gloucester, though.”
by Douglasknows
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 1:27PM
“Charity shops have their place in society and it is better than having empty shops. When things do pick up (hopefully) I wonder how the council will be able to revert the properties back to 'proper' shops. Also it makes sense to have volunteers running these shops as it's a win-win situation, the owners don't have to pay them and the volunteers get first pickings of the donated goods.”
by thomas1996
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 10:58AM
“Please Citizen tell us some really good retail news, like Debenhams to make a major investment into the city by knocking down their small, scruffy, dated department store and re-building a brand new one to rival John Lewis at Cribbs Causeway. Or M&S decide to do the job properly by enlarging the new disappointingly cramped store to a much bigger one like at Cribbs Causeway. Or dare I say free parking for shoppers, like at.............?”
by NibNobs
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 9:32AM
“SELINA30,
What's the betting the paper's headlines will be...
'SHOPPERS FLOCK TO NEW CHARITY SUPERSTORE'
or...
'ANOTHER HUGE CHARITY SHOP TO BOOST GLOUCESTER AS THE SOUTH WEST's PREMIER (CHARITY) SHOPPING LOCATION'”
by SELINA30
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 8:59AM
“Another example of Gloucester bucking the national trend?”
by NibNobs
Wednesday, October 17 2012, 8:21AM
“I suppose it makes a change from another pound shop and being a charity shop it reflects the times we live in. Plenty more empty shops for other charities to move into.”