They used until recently to sell fish next door to Beaumont Beds. I stopped shopping in this store for two reasons. Firstly it was a bit smelly. It smelled like a fishmongers. That kept my wife from entering and she often didn't want to wait outside when I expressed an interest about going in this shop (or indeed, one of the two other fishmongers on the High Street).
I however like fish mongers and so have in the past been in the Blue Bay Fish Monger. The last time I went in, I asked the fishmonger to tell me what a fish weighed. He put it on his scales and then immediately rang it up as a sale on the till and asked for the money. I said I had not agreed to buy it yet, I had only asked how much it weighed. He then claimed to me that he could not sell me another fish because he had rung this one up.
That was his problem, I said, not mine. I had not agreed to buy the fish, I had just asked how much it weighed. I made him sell me another fish, but he was not very pleasant about it - I thought that if he had tried this on an elderly person they could have been embarrassed or intimidated into agreeing to the sale of the first fish. I got what I wanted in the end, so you could say that the problem is over.
It remained his problem however- I would not buy fish in this shop because I don't want to be pressure sold something as simple as a fish again. I just don't feel relaxed about going in there, especially when my wife is asking me to pass the shop by in the first place because of the smell.
There are two other perfectly good fishmongers further up the High Street as well as Baltika, HMS Bazaar, Sainsbury's and ASDA which sell fish, either fresh or frozen, on the High Street. Blue Bay Fish Monger, after being left empty and shuttered for months, eventually re-opened its door as F15.