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Lewis’s has been operating since 1856. It’s a massive store in the heart of Liverpool city centre. As they say in their homepage, it has been an unexpected closure due to financial crisis.
It’s not just an old store closing down. It’s a sign of what’s happening in the UK too. Italy already had to say goodbye to many important plants such as FIAT’s Termini Imerese and Bialetti, just to make a couple of examples.
Credit crunch is going forward and small cities are hardly trying to tread water to survive.