DIY Shops in Canterbury

This is not a rant about DIY shops in the Canterbury area specifically but an opinion on the whole sector. For many years now DIY has been a hugely expanding trade and as it has done so the places that house these monsters have got bigger and bigger and bigger. I am sure there are still some Japanese soldiers lost in the bowels of some of these giants. Of course they need to be big to stock such a range, but is big necessarily beautiful. As these monoliths have gone from strength to strength they have slowly but surely squeezed the life blood out of the little hardware shop, where some old boy who knows his job inside out and backwards was quite happy to discuss ...