Outdoor clothing shop with over 300 branches launches closing down sale as store set to shut AN outdoor clothing shop with over 300 branches has launched a closing down sale as it prepares to shut.
Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead.
In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed.
In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Carpetright, Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins, Paperchase, Ted Baker, The Body Shop, Topshop and Wilko to name a few.
The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing.
