Thing about living in a small town is that there is an active grapevine which may produce a ‘fact’ owing it’s veracity entirely to repetition. Since before the closures of Simply Food stores were announced, there has been a persistent rumour going around Lymington that our recently opened store was up for the chop. This came from insiders in the local Chamber of Commerce apparently, whom all have opined, should be in the know if anyone is. Tricky coming to any conclusion really as it definitely isn’t on the list of closures announced that can be found in this Guardian Online article. So either it’s not going to close, or it is going to close, but is not part of the Great Closures. If you see what I mean. Anyway, we have been ‘informed’ it will definitely close in February. Or March. Either way we don’t have long to wait now to find out.
Woolies definitely has closed though. It was terribly sad to see the bones being picked clean as the shop fittings and everything else was up for sale. Unlike in many places, a shop like Woolies did fulfil a purpose in Lymington, but whether that purpose would have been sufficiently