Our Highstreet is fantastic, all the big names, marks's, next, bhs, primark!.
we have a market on a thursday and it always seems busy, the only thing is the train goes right through the town centre and stops all the shoppers then you have a mass stampede when the barriers go up!
the lower end going down to Poole quay is a bit dated, few holiday gift type shops and a grotty looking tattooists! Our woolies is now a shop called "This is it" and seem to sell everything from toy to swimming pools to wet suits to gardening stuff.
Parking is 80p and hour dont know how that compares with other parts of the country!