On a chilly day this week at a Enfield shopping centre there were plenty of clothing retailers to visit, but there was one large vacant shop with a “unit to let” sign in the window. This space was once home to a buzzing north London Topshop branch popular with local fashion-loving millennials, and new data shows it is just one of hundreds of stores in Great Britain currently empty following three high-profile retail casualties.
The latest figures could send a shiver down the spines of some Paperchase landlords preparing for the stationery retailer to exit 106 stores and concessions within the next two months, resulting in the loss of 900 jobs.
