Online marketplace, OnBuy.com, surveyed 2,424 British consumers to gage their feelings about the closure of high street stores. The survey comprised shops that have faced administrators, and subsequent closures – from Woolworths to Jane Norman and Comet – and required respondents to select the shop they wish they could bring back in time for Christmas.
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Alan Monahan writes: I took a trip down memory lane when I heard that Bennetts, which claims to be the oldest department store in the world, had gone into administration. It first opened as an ironmonger in Derby city centre in 1734 and now faces the prospect of permanent closure, with the finger being pointed
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Alan Monahan writes: After the sobering news that UK retail sales posted their biggest quarterly fall in seven years in March, I was cheered to hear that Woolworths could be making a return to our high streets. The Wonder of Woolies is that it is still so fondly remembered after shutting its doors in 2008.
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