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• Tell us about your favourite canal boat shop

  20-07-2019 09:00
  There are more licensed boats using Britain’s canals than at the height of the industrial revolution – and barge-based businesses are booming too. Tell us which canal shops float your boat
  As city centres are emptying waterways are becoming not just an alternative place to live but an attractive business space too.Are waterways becoming a new high street? Floating traders now run all manner of businesses from their boats – from grocery shops to record stores and restaurants to
  
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• 'They sell duck eggs!' Waitrose shoppers react to closures

  20-07-2019 07:00
  As the supermarket closes another seven stores customers are told their branch of 40 years will become a LidlWaitrose to axe seven more stores putting 700 jobs at riskThe sign outside Waitrose offers a “sad goodbye” to Bromley residents who have been shopping in its Sundridge Park store for more than 40 years.The store is closing in the autumn because the supermarket says it “has been unable to find a way to make the shop profitable in the long term”. Continue reading...
  
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• 'But they sell duck eggs!' Waitrose shoppers react to closures

  20-07-2019 07:00
  As the supermarket closes another seven stores customers are told their branch of 40 years will become a LidlThe sign outside Waitrose offers a “sad goodbye” to Bromley residents who have been shopping in its Sundridge Park store for more than 40 years.The store is closing in the autumn because the supermarket says it “has been unable to find a way to make the shop profitable in the long term”. Continue reading...
  
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• Barneys considers bankruptcy as store faces uncertain future

  20-07-2019 07:00
  Management said it was ‘actively evaluating opportunities’ as collapse of the store would be a significant, symbolic blow to retailAs manifestations of materialism go, few embody New York over the last two decades better than Barneys, the 250,000 sq-ft fashion emporium elevated to almost spiritual status by the designer-obsessed, shopaholic stars of Sex and the City.But last week reports emerged that Barneys might be headed toward bankruptcy, a fate partially triggered by a hike on i
  
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• Bankruptcy for Barneys? Symbol of New York luxe faces uncertain future

  20-07-2019 07:00
  Management ‘actively evaluating opportunities’ as collapse of the store would be a significant, symbolic blow to retailAs manifestations of materialism go, few embody New York over the last two decades better than Barneys, the 250,000 sq-ft fashion emporium elevated to almost spiritual status by the designer-obsessed, shopaholic stars of Sex and the City.But last week reports emerged that Barneys might be headed toward bankruptcy, a fate partially triggered by a hike on its $16m a ye
  
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