Lots of retailers going bust in the UK. I’m not sure if this is a tragedy or not. We lost our Woolworths about twenty years ago, and it wasn’t that much missed. A lot of the names that are going under leave me completely unmoved since in many cases there is no local shop and in quite a few cases, I haven’t even heard of the chain (“Passion for Perfume”).
Today, perhaps coincidentally, I heard someone on Radio 4 suggesting that maybe the UK has too many shops.
So much for brands!
And if I am asked once again whether a “brand” is the sort of thing I identify with, I shall decend to a very crude level of language indeed.
