Much-loved shoe shop with 330 stores nationwide to close branch in 2025

A much-loved footwear store with 330 nationwide stores has go the latest store to adjacent successful a West Sussex ‘ghost town’.

Shoppers successful Burgess Hill spotted a ‘closing down’ motion extracurricular of the Shoe Zone store successful Market Place Shopping Centre earlier this week.

The closure of the store successful West Sussex comes aft some Halifax and Millets besides announced that they would beryllium closing their branches successful Burgess Hill.  

The country has mislaid 2 of its coffee shops already this twelvemonth arsenic a Costa Coffee and Harris + Hoole unopen their doors.

Shoe Zone successful Burgess Hill is acceptable to adjacent successful March 2025.

The drawstring of closures has near locals feeling arsenic though their municipality is ‘dying.’

Lucy Hulford posted connected the Burgess Hill Uncovered Facebook group: ‘What a surprise, different 1 going… conscionable keeps getting worse and worse.’

Frances Smythe besides said she was bittersweet to spot the store go.

She said: ‘What a atrocious stroke to our small town. Shoe Zone is the lone spot I tin get my size 9 sandals and I don’t question to different towns.’

Katie Barnett added: ‘How overmuch past we person lost! So sad,’

The Burgess Hill subdivision is the latest Shoe Zone to adjacent arsenic the institution program to determination to ‘big container and hybrid’ format stores, replacing accepted precocious thoroughfare shopfronts.

The caller stores volition connection much banal and a greater scope of benignant for customers.

The shoe-seller, which has been a fixture of the British precocious thoroughfare since 1980, closed 13 stores successful 2023.

The closures saw stores successful areas specified arsenic Portsmouth and Watford unopen their doors and determination are much planned successful the coming months.

Six 1000 retail outlets person closed since 2018, accidental the British Retail Consortium.

Helen Dickinson OBE, the commercialized association’s main executive, enactment the diminution of the British precocious thoroughfare down to ‘crippling’ concern rates and the interaction of COVID-19.

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