A healthy economy should have a range of services that people might want to use in that area. We have the same argument locally about betting shops and cafés.

A healthy economy should have a range of services that people might want to use in that area. We have the same argument locally about betting shops and cafés. It is a known business strategy in these industries to open additional stores to dilute the success of competing stores. This creates an artificially high number of stores, wasting public space and limited resources: potentially reducing the economic health of a whole area.