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Britain’s Few Thriving Shops Offer Tips for Surviving Retail Apocalypse

  • Primark, Joules and others are defying Britain’s retail gloom
  • Advice from Next’s boss: Sometimes it pays to think small
Pedestrians pass the shuttered entrance of a closed down store in Cardiff.Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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British shops are being battered as the shift to e-commerce, intense competition and the fallout from Brexit cause catastrophic levels of store closures and job cuts.