Community Rallies To Protect Local Cobbler Until Supermarket Cancels Plans To Expand

Community Rallies To Protect Local Cobbler Until Supermarket Cancels Plans To Expand

Community Rallies To Protect Local Cobbler Until Supermarket Cancels Plans To Expand Alan Macdonald, of Bishop Cleeve – credit, Tom Wren / SWNS When a corporate shoe repair chain wanted to open a location in a Gloucestershire, town, locals rallied in a signature gathering campaign to protect their local cobbler. An example of small-town sanctity, a petition to reject the corporate newcomer was promoted on social media collected a total of 1,000 signatures from people in the area, including the local Parliament member. A UK grocery chain Tesco had submitted a planning application together with another UK chain called Timpson, to open a new location of one of their bizarre service centers that for some 160 years have offered combinations of dry cleaning, watch repair, key duplication, photo printing, engraving, portraiture, and shoe repair. Owner of the 30-year-old shop Macdonald Traditional Cobbler, Alan Macdonald, said the new location would be placed across the street and make it “difficu…