Independent retailers: openings and closures in Great Britain 2014-2017
This statistic illustrates the number of independent retail stores which opened and closed across the top 500 town centres in Great Britain from 2014 to 2017. Fewer independents opened in 2015 compared to the year before. In 2015, 34,288 independents opened compared to 34,833 in 2014. By 2017, the number of store openings amounted to 33,010.