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Britain's High Street's are closing at an alarming rate

You drive to the high street and can't park outside any of the shops you want to go into, so you pay to park in a car park, walk back to the shops only to find they no longer sell the item or size you...

Speculator Gold Gross Shorts At All Time Highs

http://economicrisis.com/speculator-gold-gross-shorts-at-all-time-highs/7776 Speculator Gold Gross Shorts At All Time Highs 008 according to SocGen, even as ‘professional’ investors look to position the exact other way. The combined short positions of futures and...

UK Retail Store Closures Increase Tenfold in 2012

As parking restrictions take there toll on retail and the internet takes evermore customers away from the high street, pound stores, pawnbrokers, charity shops, cheque cashing or payday loans premises, ...

As Silver Shortage Intensifies, More Retail Products Disappear

Read More>> http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/as-silver-shortage-intensifies-more.html As Silver Shortage Intensifies, More Retail Products Disappear Today 41-year veteran Bill Haynes told King World News the silver shortage is becoming more evident and it is...

HMV in administration: putting 4,500 jobs at risk

HMV remains, to this day, a respected and loved brand. Our emotional connection with music means that consumers, of all ages, will have fond memories of the store. However, emotions don't pay the bills and...

Give Thanks for Low Food Prices as They’ll Rise Next Year

Read More: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/give-thanks-for-low-food-prices-as.html Americans may want to freeze the leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, as retail food prices are expected to rise next year, sparked by the the country’s worst drought in more than...

Quick Profits Are Expected for the Retail Sector This Thanksgivin

Read More: http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/stock-market/get-ready-to-make-some-quick-profits-on-this-day/1018/ We are heading toward the key Thanksgiving “Black Friday” to “Cyber Monday” retail sales period, and if all goes well, there could be some quick profits...

What Councils can do to promote economic growth

Many Councils see the van and the car as an opportunity to raise tax revenues, to charge them and to restrict their use. If Councils really wanted to help the local economy they would see that they need to do ...

JJB Sports goes into administration with 3,500 job losses

Britain's battered high street suffered another major blow after administrators managed to save just 20 JJB Sports stores, with the demise of the retailer costing 3,500 jobs and leading to the closure of 160...

Retail sales fell in August due to the Olympics

Retail sales fell in August as the success of Team GB in the Olympics failed to have a positive impact on the high street.  George Osborne was booed yesterday by a 80,000 Paralympic crowd in response to his...

Mary Portas and Margate: Facing reality, not reality TV

The moment of truth was when the ceiling at John O’Neil’s boxing club fell down. Perched at the top floor of the old Masonic Building at the end of Margate’s High Street, John’s boxing gym is a local gem:...

Game on the brink after it says shares may have no value

Game Group is teetering on the brink of administration, putting 10,000 jobs at risk, after the troubled computer games retailer admitted that its shares could be worthless. The group, which has nearly 1,300...

British High Streets; The Mary Portas Revival plan

13 December 2011  Retail expert Mary Portas report for government on the decline of town centres says years of neglect and the growth of online shopping have left many areas "dying". Mary warns that many of...

38% drop in profits at Arcadia, Topshop-to-Bhs fashion empire

Pre-tax profits at Arcadia, which also owns the Topshop, Bhs, Topman, Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, Wallis and Evans brands tumbled from £213.2m to £133.1m in the year to 27 August, a decline of...

UK Video games chain warns of loss as fear sweeps the high street

Although gamers queued up last week to get their hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Game chief executive Ian Shepherd said the success of a handful of titles was not enough to counter a dramatic slump in...

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