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We used to be a nation of shop keepers, now we’re a nation of shop busters.
This was the conclusion of a 2002 report by the New Economics Foundation, which painted a bleak vision of “ghost-town Britain” as supermarkets and shopping centres took hold, leaving corner shops, local pubs, high street banks and Post Office branches vanishing in their wake.
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Source: Guardian Environment