Coronavirus: ‘Dear customers, I face ruin, please come back’
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City centres around the world are eerily quiet at the moment, as office workers try to work from home as much as possible. But there is a growing realisation that this is having a huge knock-on effect on small retailers, who rely on footfall.
Rumit Shah, who runs a chain of greeting cards shops called Cards Galore, has written an open letter explaining his plight.
Produced and filmed by digital reporter Dougal Shaw