My idea would be based on what I would like to see on the high street. In the UK the high street is in rapid decline, the mega stores with their self checkouts destroying any vestige of humanity with ordered prompts and structured barcode scanning emotionless shopping experience. Of course, online shopping also plays a part in the death knell with less overheads, being as they are all based in a huge aircraft hangar warehouse in the middle of nowhere on old ‘brownfield’ sites;- sites previously used by industry and the ground probably polluted with heavy metals (Not the Ozzy or Led Zep’ kind!)
I would like to see all empty shops on the high street open, and for a small fee people can set up a table top and sell whatever. A bit like a jumble sale or boot sale. They could also sell their own artisan creations, be it art or sculpture, clothing etc.
My own personal shop would be a curiosity shop come community meeting hub. We’d drink fine tea and cake, and all the goods would have a story attached to them. People would gather to hear the stories, or songs, and bid or buy those items. We’d have meetings to discuss things, to allow those at home sitting alone to come down and watch TV with others.
Now, this prospect immediately raises the eyebrows and spectre of analysts who with pencil and calculator will reason, this ‘business’ idea, doesn’t generate enough profit to be viable. They would point with laser pens to Pie Charts on projected forecasts on the whitewashed wall tutting, frowning and shaking their head.
Well, that’s kind of the point, dare I say it, my plan is about living as opposed to existing, it is about experience as opposed to enacting the plan set before us.
My business plan, is anathema to business, the business I am talking about is the price of human endeavour, spirit and happiness. That is crazy isnt it?
Writing prompt 7th Jan’ 24 (Crazy Business Idea)
Wot’s this all about then Guv’nor ?;-
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.
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1/ Book Reviews.
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2/ Short Stories and Tales
Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
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