Re: Maplin stores
Retail shops are fast becoming obsolete due to many reasons.
You pay high rates to the local authority who then employ traffic wardens to frighten your customers away and put you out of business.
The demand for components must be very small these days reducing as surface mount and other photographic assembly methods supersedes the old valve holders.
You cannot run a couple of hundred shops on the sale of a few bits and pieces.
It's the end of an era. [Actually it was two decades ago.] John.
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