600 fewer stores as retail suffers

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High street
High street

The number of shops fell by almost 600 last month even before the recent collapse of a raft of High Street names, according to new research.


Despite the grim statistic, employment in the retail sector rose by 0.6% in the final quarter of 2012 compared with a year earlier, driven entirely by part-time workers, the study found.
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