Popular electrical retailer to shut its doors for final time in blow to high street after over 20 years

A POPULAR electronics retailer is acceptable to unopen its doors for the last clip aft 20 years of serving the community.

It's near 1 instrumentality saying it feels similar its the "end of an era" - successful different stroke to Britain's precocious thoroughfare stores.

Cameraworld successful Chelmsford, Essex, is acceptable to adjacent for bully with locals utilizing the store present having the question to London oregon Stevenage.

Large signs beryllium successful the beforehand windows alerting soon to beryllium heartbroken customers to the closure.

"We are moving," it reads.

"We are relocating to our London and Stevenage stores. Come and sojourn america there!"

The closure of the Chelmsford store volition permission the concatenation with lone 2 stores and camera lovers present having to marque a longer travel for their camera needs.

One lensman alerted different camera fans connected Facebook saying they had made friends determination successful the 20 years they had been buying there.

They said: "Really hoping things enactment retired good for the squad that's determination now, beryllium definite to popular successful and spot them this play if you can, conscionable don't inquire if there's a closing down merchantability - each banal is going to London and Stevenage.

"I was ever much than blessed to nonstop radical the different mode too, it's been large to person a store similar Cameraworld section to america successful the mediate of the County, and I've ever been blessed to urge them arsenic determination that wouldn't merchantability you thing for the involvement of it."

Other fans of the store replied to the station and shared their sadness astatine its closure.

One said: "That's sad. I precocious got backmost into photography and bought my kit here, they were truly helpful."

Another wrote: "What a shame. Bought a batch of camera cogwheel from these guys implicit the years. Staff were excellent."

While a 3rd said: "Ah that's a existent shame. Always liked popping successful determination and besides seeing galore of the squad astatine The Photography Show and akin events. Definitely extremity of an era."

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The precocious thoroughfare seems to beryllium suffering each astir arsenic Brits steer much towards online buying and amid precocious concern rates.

Soaring inflation in caller years has besides dented shoppers' pockets.

The Centre for Retail Research's latest investigation suggests 13,479 stores, the equivalent of 37 each day, unopen for bully successful 2024.

Of those, 11,341 were autarkic shops portion 2,138 were unopen by larger retailers.

The information besides showed implicit fractional the stores that closed past twelvemonth were unopen owed to the store oregon retailer going done insolvency proceedings.

This is erstwhile ceremonial measures are taken to woody with tackling a business's debt.

Retailers are shutting stores successful 2025 too.

The Body Shop is pulling down the shutters connected 5 branches  in Exeter, Plymouth, Horsham, Norwich and Sheffield.

Three different branches person already closed in Cambridge and Hove.