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 the retail apocalypse, while our shops keep closing, sometimes hundreds at a time. Now, one in five British shops is empty.

While taking the last batch of photos for the book, I noticed two more surviving chains pulling out of Margate’s ravaged town centre.

The apocalypse rolls on…