A much loved shoe shop with 330 nationwide stores has become the latest store to close in a West Sussex ‘ghost town’.
Shoppers in Burgess Hill spotted a ‘closing down’ sign outside of the Shoezone store in Market Place Shopping Centre earlier this week.
The closure of the store in West Sussex comes after both Halifax and Millets also announced that they would be closing their branches in Burgess Hill.
The area has lost two of its coffee shops already this year as a Costa Coffee and Harris + Hoole shut their doors.
Shoezone in Burgess Hill is set to close in March 2025.
The string of closures has left locals feeling as though their town is ‘dying.’
Lucy Hulford posted on the Burgess Hill Uncovered Facebook group: ‘What a surprise, another one going… just keeps getting worse and worse.’
Frances Smythe also said she was sad to see the store go.
She said: ‘What a bad blow …
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