Editing Runcorn (section)

===Services===
[[File:Umbrellas in City Square inside Runcorn Shopping City.jpg|thumb|Town Square in [[Runcorn Shopping City]]]]
There has been a shift in employment from manufacturing to service industries. In 1991, 34% worked in the manufacturing sector and 61% were in the service sector. By 2004, 17% were in manufacturing jobs and 78% were in service jobs.<ref name="hstats">{{cite web |url=http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/councilanddemocracy/council/research/factbook?a=5441 |title=Halton Unitary in Figures |access-date=4 April 2007 |publisher=Halton Borough Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702011047/http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/councilanddemocracy/council/research/factbook?a=5441 |archive-date=2 July 2007}}</ref> This trend in the local region is demonstrated in this chart which shows the regional "gross value added" of Halton and Warrington at current basic prices, with figures in millions of pounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/RegionalGVA.pdf#page=242 |title=Regional Gross Value Added |access-date=7 April 2007 |date=21 December 2005 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |page=242 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070226163731/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/RegionalGVA.pdf <!--Added by H3llBot--> |archive-date=26 February 2007}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Year ||Regional Gross Value Added{{ref|gva_d|d}} ||Agriculture{{ref|gva_a|a}} ||Industry{{ref|gva_b|b}} ||Services{{ref|gva_c|c}}
|-
|1995 ||'''3,636''' ||14 ||1,361 ||2,261
|-
|2000 ||'''4,768''' ||10 ||1,433 ||3,324
|-
|2003 ||'''5,774''' ||18 ||1,399 ||4,356
|}
<ol type="a">
<li>{{note|gva_a}} includes hunting and forestry</li>
<li>{{note|gva_b}} includes energy and construction</li>
<li>{{note|gva_c}} includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured</li>
<li>{{note|gva_d}} Components may not sum to totals due to rounding</li>
</ol>

Runcorn has two shopping centres. The original shopping area was in the older part of the town on High Street, Regent Street and Church Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/environment/towncentres/?a=5441 |title=Town centres |access-date=28 June 2007 |publisher=Halton Borough Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513104430/http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/environment/towncentres/?a=5441 |archive-date=13 May 2007}}</ref> This centre continues to exist, but with the coming of the new town, has declined. In the centre of the new town, [[Runcorn Shopping City]] is an enclosed [[shopping mall]] with two attached bus stations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/environment/towncentres/haltonlea?a=5441 |title=Halton Lea |date=28 July 2006 |access-date=28 June 2007 |publisher=Halton Borough Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216231618/http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/environment/towncentres/haltonlea?a=5441 |archive-date=16 February 2007}}</ref> Adjacent to it is Trident Retail Park containing shopping outlets and a cinema and nearby is a large [[Asda]] [[superstore]] that opened in 1989.