Local Stores Close - Parliament Investigates

50 specialist stores closed every week in the UK

14th June 2007 - We are pleased to report that campaign posters are now appearing in local Cuffley shop windows but we need more on display. As UK’s biggest supermarkets are grappling for ever greater market share take a moment to reflect on the price small independent stores and suppliers and ultimately consumers are paying for the, many say, unfair competition supermarkets represent.

In the 5 years to 2002, 50 specialist stores including butchers, bakers, fishmongers and newsagents closed every week in the UK. In May 2005 the IGD revealed the loss of 2,157 unaffiliated independent convenience retailers, compared to only 1,079 the year before.

Real local shops are being replaced by swathes of identical chain stores that seem to spread like economic weeds, making high streets up and down the country virtually indistinguishable from one another.

The All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group investigated the future of small shops in the UK. Its report ‘High Street Britain 2015’, released in 2006, predicted a bleak future for independent shops. The report predicted that independent convenience stores were unlikely to survive by 2015 and independent newsagents were very unlikely to survive.

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