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Article: RETAIL: Top of the shops.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- April 17, 2008
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As the high street becomes depressingly homogenised, an adventurous breed of independent retailers is creating individual shops that both rework the past and look to the future. Clare Dowdy examines their appeal
There seem to be two schools of retail thought running in parallel at the moment. While the chain stores are taking over high streets and malls around the world, a fledgling band of entrepreneurs is doing its own thing.
This new breed is operating in defiance of broader trends. Eric Schlosser describes the decline of the independent store in his book Fast Food Nation, where he saw the fast-food model being adopted by retail in general. 'The ...