AFTER reading the letter in your paper (April 3) by Jay Travers of Viney Hill I would like to ask if they have visited Cinderford recently?
Well, after losing our Woolworths and other little shops in the town, we have very little choice of places to shop. The little shops have shut due to the high rents they had to pay to their landlords.
If they come to Cinderford and go to the Co-op they will see that they sell books, health foods, newspapers, magazines etc, greengrocery, dry cleaning, a funeral service, travel agents, electrical items, washing machines etc, and they even bought the chemist down the town and moved it into the store.
We have big delivery lorries coming to the Co-op in the same road as Tesco is going.
If we are blessed with having the long-awaited Tesco they will be making alterations. Houses by the rugby club will come down to allow more space to allow for deliveries.
Nobody complains about the big lorries that deliver goods to the Co-op.
Also, I would like to add that Tesco are not in Cinderford yet and the shops are closing. However they will bring employment to the area. – Cinderford resident of 40 years-plus (address supplied).