Several neighborhood and retail associations in Badalona are outraged by the recent opening of a store in the Progrés neighborhood called Wham Vintage Store, selling secondhand cultural items and antiques. They are threatening to take the complaint to the Ombudsman, and if they don't get their way, they will go to the Constitutional Court.

It's too cool for a Badalona store.

“-It's too cool, it doesn't look like a Badalona store.”

said the representative of the residents and merchants associations of Badalona Centre and Progrés.

“-When we saw that they were doing something in the premises at 95 Sagunt Street, well, we were expecting some mattress franchise, or dental clinic, or at least a iPhone case store, which the neighborhood really needs, but listen, this guy comes and says that if books rare, comics, records, old stuff… the other day I saw him putting in the store a siphon, and a box of Geyper games...what is this? What's next, a record store in the neighborhood? Another library to keep closed? This is outrageous, outrageous, listen..."

The owner, for his part, has declared

“-If it doesn't matter, if I'm going to have to close anyway, if everyone likes it... but they don't buy anything from me.”.

Consensus and calm regarding innovation in commerce

The City Council and its entities have not yet made any moves, but this is standard protocol. We ask for consensus and calm, which are two very useful words in these absurd situations.

“In this neighborhood, they're already going too far. We already have three or four esoteric stores, another three or four natural products stores, three secondhand stores, just as many craft stores, several florists, several incredible bakeries and pastry shops, huge bookstores, a manga and board game store, an impressive gastronomic offering, haberdasheries, a market, auto repair shops, bicycle and electric scooter shops, printers, copy shops... it can't be, listen, with this commercial network and the entire new Gorg neighborhood right next door, in the end, we're going to end up being the center of the city. No way. Head for Calle del Mar and walk up and down it several times like Lemmings, because here in Badalona, that's what we have to do, to infinity and beyond. And here in Progrés, the market, leave it as it is until it fossilizes, and at most, open a vape shop, because that's what we really need.”

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