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Save Essentials @ Medway

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Salman Khan
12 years ago

This is the only store on the campus and help students alot in the time of need so dont close it please.

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Keri Masters
12 years ago

NHS staff at 50 Pembroke Court regularly use this shop, it would be a shame to loose it

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Julian Quan
12 years ago

The university should adopt a creative strategy to encourage the location of a variety of smallbusinesses on campus promoting student, staff and. Ommunity engagement to achieve this, starting by safeguarding the current shop

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Ian Slipper
12 years ago

This seems a very short-sighted decision. I have been here long enough to remember a time when there was no shop, no ATM and only one restaurant - and very few students. As the facilities improved including the addition of a shop the campus became a more attractive place to be for students. The campus began to thrive. If this facilitiy is to close then it will impact on the student numbers as who in their right mind would want to come to university that has no general store? NUmbers will fall for both Greenwich and Kent and it will be fault of UNiveristy of Kent and Kent Union. A really stupid decision.

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Tricia thomas
12 years ago

Save the shop!

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Chris Atkinson
12 years ago

Its a very poor day when the community shop closes.

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Kaz Hubbard
12 years ago Featured

I am amazed that this shop is not making money. There seems to be queues everytime I go in there. I'm not a student. I work on campus (not for the university) and it is used by myself and my colleagues regularly. Everybody was suprised to hear that it was considering closure :-)

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Neil Klee
12 years ago

This move would send out entirely the wrong signals for the Medway campus!

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Mark Foster
12 years ago

Daft idea

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Ben Geddes
12 years ago

Where am I meant to buy a steak bake?

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Lynne Martin
12 years ago

Such a shame!! We MUST look at all possibilities before closing Essentials. To have no shop at the Medway campus with soooo many students is just ridiculous!!!

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Alison Edwards
12 years ago

What is any university without its campus shop! Where will students obtain provisions such as lab coats and safety specs in its absence. Never mind the academic that needs a quick lunch between meetings. People often talk about the student environment on the campus and the absence of this key student resource on campus would be detrimental to this. With more students living in Liberty Quays and close to the campus than ever then this facility really must be protected.

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Jerushah jardine
12 years ago

Please save our essentials shop, we would really miss it, plus it's a long walk to the coop- not really walkable in a lunch hour.

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Ellie Ghassemi
12 years ago

Why taking something as essential and being a good service to staff and students away from them? Is this the way they keep promising us to improve our university's quality?

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CHIEME ONWE CHIBUEZE
12 years ago

Most students buy from essentials during school our because the price goods their is relatively students friendly than other shops

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Fern Cosh
12 years ago

We hardly have anything on uni anyway, so to take away the shop is ridiculous!

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Mark Clements
12 years ago

It would be a scandal to close this shop

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Angela Wre
12 years ago

Local, convenient and cheaper than the resterants

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Adrian Dobbs
12 years ago

it is an essential service on the campus, the only shop and well used & loved by students. NSS scores would suffer without it!

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Susan Seal
12 years ago

This shop provides an essential facility for staff and students.