It’s not over yet
In Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005, I noted that people have been saying for years that…
Category: History
Is nobody winning?
Even while I was writing Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 – last year and the first…
Local shops for local people
My new book Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 is almost entirely about chain retailers, which matter more…
Patients zero
One of the earliest victims of the retail apocalypse was MFI. By the time it failed – recorded in Closed for…
A post apocalypse
In Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005, I say the same about post offices as about banks.…
You can’t always bank on anything
As hinted in my last post about Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005, it’s not only shops…
Stayin’ alive
Part of Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 acknowledges large retailers who have survived, sometimes by sacrificing branches…
The Marksman
I seem to have mentioned my local “out-of-town” (it’s not really) shopping centre, Westwood Cross, more in these posts than…
One old lady
Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 is almost entirely about chains, which have greater impact on the…
The same tat
You’ll have to read Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 to find out why this post title. I…