{"product_id":"closed-for-good-ian-m-palmer-9798287215361","title":"Closed for Good?: The \"Retail Apocalypse\" in Britain since 2005","description":"Remember Woolworths? Remember Debenhams? Remember Comet, BHS, MFI? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twenty years, Britain has lost more big retailers than ever before. Nothing has replaced them. A fifth of our shops stand empty. Shops employ more people than any other industry, and they're failing. Experts call it the retail apocalypse - and it's not over yet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs it just the internet? Or is something else killing our high streets? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIan M. Palmer has worked in retail since the 1980s. In Closed for Good? he looks at some of our greatest retail businesses, from the eccentrics and entrepreneurs who built them to the forces which are bringing them down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens to a nation of shopkeepers when the shops close?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian M. Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798287215361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Ian M. Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801049379071,"sku":"9798287215361","price":9.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/closed-for-good-ian-m-palmer-9798287215361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}