The shoppers shared their destruction after one of the beloved stores shared it.
Morleys, who sells a group of home tools and fashion, told customers that it will close in Tooting, London after nearly 70 years of trade.
The local population was fast in harmony and exchange of destruction after the news.
One person said: “Unfortunately, these types of stores die, I think the elderly who do not enter online shopping will be particularly sad to see it, it is a loss of involvement.”
Another said: “It is very sad to hear this news. Only the decent store is left in tooting now.”
While a third said: “There is another store that closes it as doors, just another sign of changing shopping habits for people.”
A fourth person wrote: “Morley is very sad closing such a good store with great people who have always served for several years polite and ready to help good old fashion service.”
To help transfer the shares before it goes, the store launched a sale of up to 70 %.
Malcon plans to close the store on April 30, giving customers a few weeks to say their farewell.
The Morleys has another store in BRIXTon, which will remain open.
It has been widely reported that the building has been sold to developers who will turn the building into 24 private housing units.
There will also be space for commercial units on the ground floor.
This is not the first time that the local population had to hint by goodbye to a company.
Again in October, Harrington EEL and Pie House confirmed on the Selkirk’s Road in Tooting on Social media It will be closed more than a century after providing traditional food.
As for Morleys, it is not the only store that silences the store.
Fraser House She will close her store at Lincoln High Street Within weeks.
The Frasers owned by the Bluewateer Shopping Center in December.
The store has been operated from a large unit that occupies two floors at the Greenhithe shopping center for years.
A problem with the high street
Many other retailers close stores all over the high street, as families tend more towards online shopping and high business prices.
High inflation in recent years may avoid shoppers.
The retail research center analysis indicates 13479 stores, equivalent to 37 every day, closed in 2024.
Among them, 11341 was independent stores while 2138 retailers were closed.
The data also showed more than half of the stores that were closed last year were closed due to the store or the retail dealer through insolvency procedures.
This is when official measures are taken to deal with the company’s debt processing.
Retail dealers also closes stores in 2025.
New Look is the intensification of the store closing program before the high national insurance in April.
Nearly a quarter of the 364 retailers are at risk when rental contracts end.
This is equivalent to about 91 stores, with a significant effect on its working power of 8000.
The company has restructured Estate Store twice in the past six years, which reduced its wallet from about 600 stores in the United Kingdom in 2018.
It also closed all its 26 stores across Ireland, which represents the end of two decades in the country.
Retail pain in 2025
The British Retail Union expected that the Treasury increased to the employer NIC will cost the retail sector 2.3 billion pounds.
Research conducted by British Chambers shows that more than half of companies are planning to raise prices by early April.
A survey of more than 4,800 companies found that 55 % expect prices to increase in the next three months, up from 39 % in a similar survey conducted in the last half of 2024.
Three quarters of companies were martyred at the cost of employing people as basic financial pressure.
The CRR also warned that about 17,350 retail sites are expected to close this year.
It comes in the back of 2024 difficult when 13,000 stores closed its doors for good, already an increase of 28 % in the previous year.
Professor Joshua Bamfeld, CRR director, said: “The results of 2024 show that although the results of the closure of stores in general were not poor as it was in 2020 or 2022, it is still concerned, with worse in 2025,” said Professor Joshua Bamfeld, CRR director.
Professor Bamfield also warned of a dark look for 2025, expecting that up to 202,000 jobs in this sector can be possible.
“By increasing the costs of operating stores and costs on the family of all consumer, it is very likely to see the losses of retail jobs expanding the height of the epidemic in 2020.”
