Tomorrow’s World disappeared without much warning

Tomorrow’s World disappeared without much warning.

It was the DVD rental shop in Portslade, Brighton, England, which had been there for 30 years – it just stopped trading.

It up and went before our very eyes, and before the eyes of the woman whose business it was. Forces of the market beyond her control changed her life forever.

We had been customers for the last 7 years and every Friday or Saturday night, we might go there as an end of the week treat. It was our ritual. And now it is gone. And we all have this strange mourning sensation when we walk past the empty shop unit.

Like my friend Kirsty once described “ it’s like the sense of yearning you feel for something that happened in a dream, when you wakeup in the morning”

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