06 December 2014, from a local shop near you, throughout the United Kingdom
Once upon a time, some five decades ago perhaps, there was no such thing as hulking supermarkets. Anything of comparable size to today’s traffic-thronged boxes would be the market hall of a major town or city such as Bolton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Leeds, Huddersfield or Sheffield. Unlike today’s supermarkets they were, and remain in many cases, icons of civic pride. Continue reading “The State of (Retail) Independence: Celebrating Small Business Saturday”