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Clone Town Britain survey launched to discover if Britain is losing its identity
. Clone Town Britain nef is asking people across the country to carry out a simple survey ... A new survey to reveal how far Britain has gone towards becoming a nation of clone towns is launched today, Saturday 28 August 2004. nef is asking people across the country to carry out ...
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The resistible rise of Ghost Town Britain
has set in. (Connected Economies, clone towns, ghost towns, post bank, retail, small businesses, supermarkets, Tesco) Connected Economies, clone towns, ghost towns, post bank, retail, small businesses ... Back in 2002, nef published a report called Ghost Town Britain , which warned ...
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Supermarkets don't regenerate communities – they hoover money out
that it was disastrous for the local economy and destroyed the existing retail base. Big supermarkets, Demos says ... , and a key one of those is labour. And they act like giant economic vacuum cleaners, hoovering wealth out ... and planning deals. But the malign influence of the big retailers can be even more insidious. The "sense ...
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nef reaction to Tesco growth figures: "It's the rise of a suffocating retail 'super clone'"
18 January 2005 As Tesco released their latest sales figures, responses to nef's Clone Town Britain survey (to be released ... ". Clone Town Britain Tesco's sales figures show that their aggressive pursuit of market ...
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Clone Town Britain
the ideal degree of sterility to house a string of big, clone town retailers. nef has launched ... dominated our high-streets. (hollowed out, clone town britain, clone town ... Shopping_Trolleys_from_Clone_Town ...
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Ghost Town Britain II: Death on the High Street
This update of nef's previous Ghost Town Britain report reveals ... of supermarkets and other big retail chains. How Britain's local ... December 2003 This update of nef's previous Ghost Town ...
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Clone Town Britain
out why the places that we live and shop seem to be turning into clone towns. At the end of it we hope ... development, retail, small businesses) Andrew Simms, Clone Town Britain, Connected Economies, Jessica ... a national survey to find out why the places that we live and shop seem to be turning into clone towns ...
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Supermarkets, shopping centres and the death of small shops
[...] an interesting post that explains how out-of-town shopping centres and grocery stores have made small shops ... dominates Shepherd's Bush, are now busily moving round retail business that existed before, draining ... with powerful retailers to build a new supermarket, they will be poorer than they would have been. So ...
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Clone Town Britain 2010: High street diversity still on endangered list
’s most cloned town, managing only 11.6 on the diversity scale (out of a possible 100). Only nine ... towns most dependent on the big chains and out of town stores have proven to be most vulnerable ... 41 per cent of UK towns are clone towns and a further 23 per cent are on the verge of becoming clone ...
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Clone Town Britain survey: results reveals national identity crisis
between clone towns, border towns and home towns in the UK. Clone Town Britain shows how retail spaces ... with soulless clone towns. The argument that big retail is good because it provides consumers with choice ... : Retail chains 'cloning' UK towns The TImes: It's so wonderful to be here ...