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A FAMILY favourite accelerated nutrient concatenation has abruptly closed an "incredible" tract leaving shoppers "heartbroken".
Japanese takeaway concatenation Itsu has 77 branches crossed the country, including successful Brighton, Leeds and Exeter.
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It sells everything from sushi, salads and noodle dishes for bare shoppers on-the-go.
But customers successful Staines volition present request to find a caller edifice arsenic the subdivision successful the Two Rivers Shopping Centre closed for the last clip yesterday (October 18).
In a connection connected Facebook, the centre said; "Sadly, itsu volition beryllium closing astatine Two Rivers arsenic of Saturday evening.
"Keep your eyes peeled connected our social media for immoderate precise breathtaking coming soon news."
Locals took to Facebook to stock their disappointment astatine proceeding the news.
One lawsuit said: "Awww, what a shame."
Another added: "What! Love an Itsu. Please don’t bring successful different unhealthy nutrient place."
A 3rd cried: "It’s a shame for those who enactment there."
While a 4th wrote: "So disappointed! I emotion Itsu!
"My nine-year-old lad volition beryllium heartbroken. Whenever we are successful Staines helium lone wanted to devour astatine Itsu."
In the Google reviews, the edifice has been described arsenic "incredible" with "lovely and adjuvant staff".
The Sun has contacted Itsu for comment.
More section closures
Itsu isn't the lone concatenation to person closed a seat successful Staines recently.
Argos closed its subdivision successful the marketplace municipality successful February up of its determination into a section Sainsbury's supermarket.
TGI Fridays unopen its edifice successful Staines aft it collapsed into administration.
It was among 35 locations that closed with contiguous effect, starring to the nonaccomplishment of 1,000 jobs.
Carpetright besides unopen its subdivision successful the municipality successful July arsenic portion of a a pre-pack medication deal. It resulted successful the closure of 213 stores.
Why are retailers closing shops?
EMPTY shops person go an eyesore connected galore British precocious streets and are often symbolic of a municipality centre’s decline.
The Sun's concern editor Ashley Armstrong explains wherefore truthful galore retailers are shutting their doors.
In galore cases, retailers are shutting stores due to the fact that they are nary longer the money-makers they erstwhile were due to the fact that of the emergence of online shopping.
Falling store income and rising unit costs person made it adjacent much costly for shops to enactment open. In immoderate cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a caller store astatine the different extremity of a precocious thoroughfare to bespeak however a municipality has changed.
The occupation is that erstwhile a large store closes, footfall falls crossed the section precocious street, which puts much shops astatine hazard of closing.
Retail parks are progressively fashionable with shoppers, who privation to beryllium capable to get easy, escaped parking astatine a clip erstwhile section councils person hiked parking charges successful towns.
Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer person been shutting stores connected the precocious thoroughfare and taking bigger stores successful better-performing retail parks instead.
Boss Stuart Machin precocious said that erstwhile it relocated a bushed store successful Chesterfield to a caller large store successful a retail parkland fractional a mile away, its income successful the country roseate by 103 per cent.
In immoderate cases, stores person been unopen erstwhile a retailer goes bust, arsenic successful the lawsuit of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to sanction a few.
What’s progressively communal is erstwhile a concatenation goes bust a rival retailer oregon backstage equity steadfast snaps up the intelligence spot rights truthful they tin ain the marque and merchantability it online.
They whitethorn spell connected to unfastened a fistful of stores if determination is lawsuit demand, but determination are seldom ever arsenic galore stores oregon successful the aforesaid places.
HOSPITALITY WOES
The hospitality assemblage has struggled to bounce backmost aft the pandemic, facing challenges including soaring energy bills, inflation and unit shortages.
In January 2023, Byron Burger fell into administration with owners saying it would effect successful the nonaccomplishment of implicit 200 jobs.
Around 12 branches were saved successful a rescue woody with Tristar Foods, which is owned by Calveton.
The Restaurant Group (TRG), which owned Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and Wagamama, unopen dozens of sites successful the aforesaid year.
It past went connected to sell its Frankie & Bennys and Chiquito brands to Cafe Rouge proprietor The Big Table radical successful September 2023.
Italian edifice concatenation Prezzo besides closed dozens of sites past year.
In April 2024, Tasty, the owners of Italian edifice Wildwood and Dim T, a pan-Asian restaurant, announced plans to exit around 20 loss-making restaurants aft a "challenging" commencement to the year.
In the aforesaid month, Whitbread revealed plans to slash its concatenation of branded restaurants across the UK.
Pub giant Stonegate has besides raised fears astir its survival as it races to plug its debts.
Britain's "rudest restaurant" went bust successful September after its genitor company, Viral Ventures UK, reportedly racked up much than £400,000 worth of debt.
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