Selina Gabbitas at Wisteria home interiors and Tea rooms has a great feeling about Retford. "I believe that Retford will be successful and survive these bad times. The independents will stay strong because the retford people are using us, and that will make Retford a great place to shop. Look at Bawtry this is made up of independents and this is a town to aspire to.
So lets all work really hard and strive to be as good.

Selina this is very true and I believe Retford has a very strong community of people that want to help each other out and will work together. Wisteria is a beautiful tea room and I am sure it attracts a good and loyal following of customers.

By simplyretford at 21:23 on 12/04/11
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I think its good to have many small independants, but to make Retford more successful we need some more branded and well known places. Instead of spended approx 1.5 million on the market square, we could of helped to fund better known shops to come into Retford, such as Next, which would bring in more custom to all of the shops surrounding Retford.

By pinkdaisy20 at 11:29 on 09/05/11
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This is very true, it certainly would be helpful to have some attractive and big brand stores in Retford. I can also understand the frustration in regards to the market square, many have also contested whether it was any better for all the money and disruption caused, I am unsure, however who funded the development?. I suppose the lack of big brands on the high street could be as much to do with the online retail environment?. But I do believe we need to attract new business to the area somehow as it is a great town with plenty of prospects :)

By simplyretford at 19:08 on 09/05/11
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