He cited increasing overheads, including staff costs and energy bills, as other reasons for the business struggling.<\/p>\n
“Everything’s gone sky-high. Electric, gas, national insurance, minimum wage. We just can’t get nowhere.<\/p>\n
“My electric bill’s just more than doubled.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Plus the high street is getting killed. People prefer to go to the supermarket now.”<\/p>\n
When he started as a butcher’s boy in the early 1990s, the street also had a greengrocer, fishmonger, DIY shop and many other thriving businesses that have since closed.<\/p>\n
The area is traditionally agricultural, and footfall was once driven by the cattle and “fur and feathers” markets. The livestock auctions did not return after the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001, and a Tesco store opened in 2011.<\/p>\n
“Everybody came shopping back then. Penistone Market was a good market. It was jam-packed solid.<\/p>\n
“The weekly cattle market brought people into the town centre too, but that closed. And the supermarkets opened.<\/p>\n
“It’s not the same, I’ve seen the place go downhill, we’ve lost a lot of other shops.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He cited increasing overheads, including staff costs and energy bills, as other reasons for the business struggling. “Everything’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-344440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}