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Bruce_Savage
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I have to post this because I'm becoming increasingly disinterested with the amount of bookmakers that are opening up throughout the country for example here in Birmingham I was walking along to get some shopping yesterday morning to find that William Hill have opened up in a vacant property within the city centre.
For me, this is just completely socially irresponsible given that the same road already houses a Ladbrokes, BetterBet, PaddyPower and a Corals withing about 500 yards of each other.The people that go in here, well I'll refrain from being rude but through my experience they seem to be largely aggressive, controlling and highly uninspiring delinquent sights. These people are hardly going to be inspiring consumers lurking outside in the dozens which is just yards away from a lovely little well to do cafe and hairdressers opposite, they are surely going to see some impact through this.
It's disgusting, we don't need this sort of influence on our high streets because it's the wrong message to be sending out particually to the younger audience. How many places do you want to have a bet? seriously, I have nothing against people going in and having the odd bet here and there because it's part of a personal release although I don't believe by saturating the high streets to make way for doormats for lurkers and the pennyless to accommodate as productive.
Then again you have to consider are these undercover casino's painted over with a traditional bookmaker reputation which has been known for donkey's years as a main connection with Horse Racing and Greyhound betting which just simply isn't the case anymore and as Horse Racing is a product of these companies I think it's imperative that we move away from them in order to save some reputation within the public domain and to stop using the sports reputation for providing an acceptable means in distributing violent casino outlets and there must be stronger regulation brought in to stop the overwhelming power they have on the high street.
In short, Bookmakers do not represent Horse Racing from what we see on the adverts to what we see on the street tells a different story and I think it's imperative that as an organisation we try to move away from Bookmaker reliance because they don't represent the industry but rather mini-casino outlets using our great sports name to legalize the high street saturation that we have to be faced with day in day out.
For me, this is just completely socially irresponsible given that the same road already houses a Ladbrokes, BetterBet, PaddyPower and a Corals withing about 500 yards of each other.The people that go in here, well I'll refrain from being rude but through my experience they seem to be largely aggressive, controlling and highly uninspiring delinquent sights. These people are hardly going to be inspiring consumers lurking outside in the dozens which is just yards away from a lovely little well to do cafe and hairdressers opposite, they are surely going to see some impact through this.
It's disgusting, we don't need this sort of influence on our high streets because it's the wrong message to be sending out particually to the younger audience. How many places do you want to have a bet? seriously, I have nothing against people going in and having the odd bet here and there because it's part of a personal release although I don't believe by saturating the high streets to make way for doormats for lurkers and the pennyless to accommodate as productive.
Then again you have to consider are these undercover casino's painted over with a traditional bookmaker reputation which has been known for donkey's years as a main connection with Horse Racing and Greyhound betting which just simply isn't the case anymore and as Horse Racing is a product of these companies I think it's imperative that we move away from them in order to save some reputation within the public domain and to stop using the sports reputation for providing an acceptable means in distributing violent casino outlets and there must be stronger regulation brought in to stop the overwhelming power they have on the high street.
In short, Bookmakers do not represent Horse Racing from what we see on the adverts to what we see on the street tells a different story and I think it's imperative that as an organisation we try to move away from Bookmaker reliance because they don't represent the industry but rather mini-casino outlets using our great sports name to legalize the high street saturation that we have to be faced with day in day out.
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