People are going less hoidays no surprise really.

Atleast it's not a general retailer this time though been too many cuts there.

Just read Lambok a furniture chain could be next and TJ Hughes has saved another two shops as someone called Lewis Home Retail.

Lombak closed 9 of it's stores today. It just kept a few of it's showrooms and London concession stores, as well as it's online website.

http://news.sky.com/home/article/16050357

Could Thomas Cook be next? They have a debt crisis. From Business Standard:

http://www.business-standard.com/ind...crisis/456372/

The Government is next ...

Hang on we are already there !

Yes we have been in debt for hundreds of years !

Strange how we as a nation have always been in the red !

Priceless Shoes and Barretts again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16085624

They already shut half there stores in 2009.

Peacocks could be closing stores too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16098171

Retail week says 200 stores could close.

Outdoor clothing retailers Blacks and Millets facing collapse...

Potentially worthless Blacks Leisure put up for sale

Just looking at the list, Whittard of Chelsea is still open, even open a Christmas store in Peterborough, so its not always doom and gloom.

Peacocks, Priceless Shoes and Barratts? When the middle-priced and cheap-range shops are struggling then we really are in trouble!

I like Peacocks for children's clothes as they are relatively cheap but good enough quality to last until the next age/size is required. Also handy for pants, socks, etc.

At this rate we'll all be buying online or from supermarkets only if we can't afford designer labels. It's bad enough now trying to find a toy shop, a book shop or anything else where you might like to browse and compare actual items "in the flesh".

Somehow buying from a supermarket doesn't have the same atmosphere as buying from an actual shop, not to mention the range is worse - only the most popular titles/brands etc.

I miss high streets with interesting shops. It's all either high priced designer stuff that I can't afford or lowest quality tat that I wouldn't touch, or charity shops. And mobile phone shops

What will happen when no shops are left apart from Supermarkets petrol stations and Fast food outlets?
I think internet is partly to blame.
Dont see Google shedding jobs

High rents and lack of spending nothing to do with supermarkets or Internet.

I haven't bought anything apart from food in a shop for years - I buy mostly from Amazon as I get free delivery - there is not really much need for a high street presence any more.

The only reason I see for high street shops is folk who want a social day out with their friends.

Ours only opened last year, took over the old woolies, but I have never been in there. i have peeped inside when I past a few times and it been pretty quiet in there to be honest.

i said when it opened I would give it 18 months.

I tend to avoid our town centre if I can, the only time I go is for Iceland and Argos. But saying that I hear there is a new bakery in one of the side streets, so I am going to have a look at that tomorrow asI am not working,

I buy my clothes from Premier man these days.

I hate our city centre, too much rubbish squashed into a a small space, next week they got a retail market everyday, arts, then Farmer, then the normal retail market, then a French Market and it think another Farmers market.

never understand the need for a French market, I bet they don't have a English market in France.

Around here it's hard to find a general type of shoe shop that sells work shoes. All the Barretts type shops closed during the last recession.

Only place to go for music is HMV or a supermarket as Zavvi and Woolies have gone.

There's alot of new shops cropping up I've never heard of. Shopping on the high street is more difficult now as much as I prefer to there's sometimes I have to go online.

They have expanded alot but possibly too much as there's Matalan and Primark for cheaper clothes. I must admit I never shop in Peacocks.

La Senza:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16322404

D2 again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...iness-16350067

Not surprising, my 2 local stores are both closing, and the Belfast store was pretty much giving away stuff before Christmas

Looks like many more stores will be at risk of closing.

It's nothing less than the death of the high street up & down the country. Centres of towns & cities across the UK will become ghost towns.

Even my city, Aberdeen, has lots of empty units, even with our local economy still sheltered by the oil industry. However many chains closing are national with outlets here. So it doesn't matter if the local store is doing fine, if the retailer goes tits up, everbody suffers.

You wonder whether what the high street needs is LOCAL entrepreneurs, who can react to the local economy (just like the old days in fact!)...but maybe it goes beyond the current Depression (because that's how it feels), as a growing number of people don't even enter their town & city centres to shop, but do it online - & I don't have an answer for that.

Maybe a change of emphasis to residential & restaurants etc might help, filling/converting empty shop units. Who knows, & who knows if this will ever end?

Well not quite since the 2008 reccesion most prime units have been taken over. In my town there's alot of independant retailers taking over previous big name units which have just went bankrupt and no longer exist.

What I find is shopping malls use big names to attract people in but now between each small town you can't go and get every shop. There's some companies just cutting back on stores. I have to make a 15/20 mile trip to two towns to find all the shops I actually like now.

I think it's good news the units are being taken over by other reailers but very few of these I actually use. Wilkinson is the closest thing to the Woolworths model on the high street but they lack DVD/Games and music so unless you need something I tend not to go in just for a browse.

TJ Hughes which had 50+ shops now have about 6 stores in the UK and Barretts which has just gone into administation again had already closed most of the Scottish stores during the last big retail downturn. We use to have lots of shoe shops and now we only have the last few remianing names Clarks and Shoe Zone.

I think Mountain Warehouse will go into administration soon. I have inside sources

Trespass stores always always empyty too.

Makes me wonder how they stay open. I still miss Borders books no wonder everybody is buying ereaders now.