01 May 2008


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Parking is the issue for small retailers

In the wake of yesterday's final report from the Competition Commission, it seems one crucial element - from the independent retailer's perspective - has been overlooked. Parking.

Small shopkeepers being interviewed by The Guardian today flagged it as one of the key reasons they lose out to large superstores.

And their argument is echoed by consultants MPC Associates, whose chairmn Peter Wynne-James tells me: "They have completely ignored the huge trading advantages of large car parking areas used by UK superstores and hypermarkets, neither of which are defined in the report."

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