Shock as another shop closes on Fargate in Sheffield - and it could soon be half empty
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It leaves just 23 of 40 units in the pedestrianised zone still occupied, some 57.5 per cent. The list includes four banks, four mobile phone shops and a vape store.
It is significantly up on the number of vacancies in August 2020, following the first lockdown, when there were 10 empty units, some 25 per cent.
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The full list of surviving shops: Virgin Money, Metro Bank, O2, unnamed fashion store, WHSmith, Santander, EE, Elite Vape, Lush, The Phone Shop, Rebel fashion, Hotel Chocolat, Greggs, Starbucks, Boots, Caffè Nero, Paperchase, M&S, Superdrug, Vision Express, Three, H&M, HSBC.
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