High Street Loss

Jessops has gone.  187 stores have shut their doors and 1370 people have lost their jobs.  Jessops was a large high street camera retail store that in recent years has struggled to compete with Internet sales.

We are seeing a number of casualties such as this at present.  Just before Xmas Clinton cards closed its doors, and this week HMV announced that it will be closing 60 stores over the next 12 months.

Elevator

An original elevator from the department store Selfridges, now in the Museum of London. Just over a hundred years old Selfridges was the first store to allow customers in to "just browse". In Victorian times one only went into a store to make a purchase. It was unheard of to actually leave without having bought anything.