High street retail chain with 240 UK sites to shut major shopping centre store as closing down sale launched
A MAJOR video game retail chain is closing one of its popular stores in coming months. GAME, inside Manchester’s Trafford ...
High street retailers to shut two branches as huge closing down sales launched
TWO high street retailers have launched a big closing down sales at two stores in a shopping centre. Sports Direct and USC, ...
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WHSmith agrees to sell British high street shops in bid to rebrand
The sale does not include the retailer's travel locations, such as shops in airports and train stations, nor the WHSmith brand ...
WH Smith to become latest high street giant to disappear – what are the others?
For the first time since 1792, high streets will be without WH Smith stores. It marks the end of a lengthy era - but UK ...
WH Smith to sell UK high street business for nearly $100 million
WH Smith is to sell its more than 230-year-old British high street business to Hobbycraft-owner Modella Capital for 76 ...
WHSmith's rise and fall from high street icon to price fury and hospital shame
Henry Walton Smith opened the first shop - a newsagents week 230 years ago and this week announced the WHSmith name is ...
How a heritage revival helped spark renewal on Britain’s high streets
The High Streets Heritage Action Zone programme was launched in 2020 in partnership with Arts Council England and the ...
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Woolworths, Wilko and now WH Smith – why Britain’s high-street stalwarts didn’t deserve to survive
With the news that another veteran retailer is officially shutting its doors, Helen Coffey asks whether any of the UK’s heritage chains can cling on amid the digital shopping storm ...
High Street businesses speak of Budget pressures
Last year's Budget saw employers bear the brunt of £40bn in tax rises - the biggest increase in a generation. Just days from ...
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Major UK charity shop closing 39 high street stores - see full list of sites
Charity shops are retail outlets selling mainly donated goods to raise funds for their parent charities and they have been a staple of the British high street for decades. Most charity shops have ...