Popular health store suddenly closes in town centre leaving shoppers devastated
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SHOPPERS have been left devastated and shocked after a popular town centre health store closed down.
The Vitamin Shop in Watford is said to have been down for a month now, without explanation as to why.
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Vitamin Shop in St Albans Road.
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The health and fitness supplement store has had its fixtures and fitting stripped out for refurbishment.
With no announcement made in social media, the store has been listed as permanently closed on Google.
There are expectations a new business will move in soon.
The unit and its two-bedroom flat upstairs were made available for rent together at £27k per year earlier in the week.
Th property therefore has a value of £50 per square foot of the, which is rateable at £6.9k.
Managed by Perry Holt Property Consultants, the property is described to be 'prominently located'.
It sits on a major thoroughfare in a 'well-established area for secondary retailers'.
Closure of the Vitamin Shop is among many retailers around the UK that have stopped their operations.
Another supplements store, a Holland & Barrett branch in Stoke on Trent, also closed down earlier in the year.
This similarly caused devastation for shoppers in the local community, with one who took to social media and wrote: "It's all over.'
Britain's retail apocalypse: why your favourite stores KEEP closing down
According to a report by the Centre for Retail Research, an average of 37 high street shops closed every day across the UK last year.
On top of that, the Centre for Retail Research has warned that 'worse is set to come in 2025'.
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