Retail across the water
BPC Staff Feb 12, 2019 | 5:31 pm
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90 wordsAll Latest News, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Retail and BusinessTrepp LLC, which bills itself as “a leading provider of data, analytics and technology solutions to the global securities and investment management industries” and provides a steady dose of commercial real estate information to boot, reports that the oldest department store in England is closing, with owners blaming the retail tidal wave of e-commerce and higher expenses, a theme familiar to U.S. stores turtled by changing consumer habits. Bennetts department store opened as an “ironmonger” — a supplier of consumer goods — in 1734 in the city of Derby.