Grove Street fishmongers closes after 7 months

That's disappointing. Prime location. No other fishmongers in wilmslow. Why couldn't they make it work ? And such a short time to give it a try. Guess they knew more about fish than business...

Yet another shop closure for Wilmslow. Maybe the Council and landlords should look at rents and rates before Wilmslow becomes a ghost town!

If Simon Dunn, the chocolate man, had £1000.00 a week of rent and council tax, against his venture, surely the fish shop in Grove St would be more. And selling fish? Diane is correct.
To make a shop pay in that Street, expensive things have to be sold.
The only reason the Charity shops are there, is that the council tax is reduced by 80%. This can be found on the internet

Can't believe they had been there 7 months. Seems 2 minutes since they opened - hadn't had a chance to go in and support them. But then again, there is the fish shop on Chapel Lane to compete with...

Such a shame that another unit has closed especially when so much investment is required for new ventures. I was slightly puzzled by the fish restaurant upstairs however; they served a full English breakfast and afternoon tea (in addition to fish and chips of course!) but Konak was just over the street, not the hardest of competition for the recently expanded Konak business. Surely a sushi or fish focused restaurant would have excelled on the high street........

Never mind the fish shop on chapel lane, what about the travelling fish van on the market site every week, they seemed to have a loyal following who weren't going to shift to a new shop......bring those rates down!!!

It is a shame but the fishmongers in Chapel Lane is very good and has a loyal customer base so maybe Wilmslow is too small for 2 such similar businesses. It was an expensive set up if they only had a 6 month lease. Something must be done about rent and rates.

Fulshaw has altogether better shops than Grove St unless of course you really need a diamond ring or a mobile phone.
It has been going downhill for more than a quarter of a century.

Before we all just agree that it's failing was the fault of the charity shops and the rates - yes I agree that there are too many of the former and the latter getting to be unachievable - in my humble opinion it wasn't a business model to succeed.

It had two well established competitors, as mentioned, with the advantage of location. The Grove St shop had six days a week to trade, five of those are work days. Therefore the majority of shoppers would be workers not likely to want to buy fresh fish on the way into work nor at their lunch break. That meant it would mainly be an after work purchase and then many may have to carry it distances on public transport.

Chapel Lane is in the middle of a residential area with other similar shops and on the route of several school runs. The travelling Fish Van turns up when shoppers not workers are there. If I would throw anything against the Council in this instance is the lack of free parking or very short stay parking bays that would mean you could 'pop' into Wilmslow...

I raised my doubts with the business owners at its inception. This unit needs to earn a minimum of £100,000 GP per year to even justify being open. As usual the combination of extortionate rates, wrong position (surrounded by units closed on a Saturday afternoon - see previous rants about retail units closed during retail hours) with no passing motorists to spot the new shop and a very specialised, very perishable product have lead to a very short experience. Room now for opticians, estate agent, bank, coffee shop or charity shop as no-one else can afford it. Perhaps we should question the low business rates paid by charity outlets which sell new products and compete with existing shops and maybe the patrons of (and donators to) the charity shops could wonder how the huge rents on Grove Street are being met!!! I suspect these shops are subsidised by other donations to the charity. Glasses wearers could also wonder about the million pounds plus that our 7(?) opticians need to pay their bills.

Doesn't surprise me, didn't think it would last long for a variety of reasons which have already been mentioned.
It worries me though the amount of shops closing down in the area.
At some point Grove street will be charity shops either side and Shelter patrolling through the middle.

If Grove Street was re-opened to cars, (one way as it used to be), with parking limited to say one hour, I'm sure this would be beneficial to traders.
I can't think of a single town that has pedestrianised, and not seen a decline in trade

Feel for the guys who no doubt put a huge amount of effort and funding into this venture, but the reality is that there are very few businesses that can thrive on any high street these days. Perhaps though the upstanding model citizens who ran the established successful establishment the other side of Grove St out of the town will enjoy the symmetry of empty units now !!!!!!