Retail

Boarded and blacked-out M&S store windows on Oxford Street, Swansea, with a lone shopper passing by
Centurion Group

SWANSEA: M&S needs 300 parking spaces at the door to come back, council leader says

The council leader has spelled out what a full M&S would need to return to the city. The Debenhams names,…

The red graffiti-covered shutter of Asia Vape on St Helen's Road, Swansea, with court closure notices taped to it under the shop's purple and pink sign
Cllr Andrew Williams

ST HELEN’S ROAD: Asia Vape shut for a second time in a year as three more Swansea vape shops are closed

Magistrates have closed Vape City and Asia Vape on St Helen’s Road and Vape Zone on Dilwyn Street, the council…

The turquoise-fronted former Rainbow childrenswear boutique at 29 Uplands Crescent, next to The Bookshop cocktail bar, in a terrace of gabled Victorian shops
Post Office

UPLANDS: Post Office wants to move out of Uplands News and into the old Rainbow childrenswear shop

The branch would go 130 metres up Uplands Crescent to the empty boutique at number 29, refurbished with a convenience…

Three shopfronts inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre — a TGJones store on the left, the Post Office and Swyddfa'r Post in the middle, and a Toys R Us store on the right, with two shoppers walking past on a polished tiled floor.
Bridgend

SWANSEA: TGJones confirms closure date for the Quadrant’s old WHSmith

Swansea's former WHSmith in the Quadrant has been given a closing date. The Post Office inside it will shut days…

Swansea Council's lead trading standards officer Rhys Harries with two South Wales Police officers in front of the closed shutters of Monsoon Vape in Morriston, with court closure notices displayed
Cllr Andrew Williams

MORRISTON: Two vape shops shut down after undercover officers bought illegal vapes and fake tobacco

Four people were arrested and a suspected delivery vehicle seized in the raids that followed, Swansea Council says.

Yellow store closing down posters in the windows of the TGJones shop at Parc Trostre retail park in Llanelli
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LLANELLI: Closing-down signs go up at TGJones in Trostre, the third of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

Staff say the shop that was WHSmith until last year has weeks left. The chain has still not announced a…

Six people stand beneath a red and green balloon arch with a ribbon and oversized scissors at the SPAR opening.
Costcutter

SWANSEA: SPAR replaces university’s longstanding Costcutter

The Singleton campus shop has kept its existing team, with additional paid student roles announced and a wider food range…

The former Wilko store entrance at Friars Park, Carmarthen, behind metal fencing with a bilingual Danger Keep Out sign
Buzz Parks

CARMARTHEN: Wilko demolition pushed back to next year as council says a tenant “of significant benefit to the town” is in talks

The bulldozers were booked for 26 October. Now there's a new date, a new bill-payer and a tenant the council…

A group of campaigners holding "Jobs not rubble" and "Stop the demolition" placards beside a red Buzz Trampoline Park van outside the former Wilko store in Carmarthen
Buzz Parks

CARMARTHEN: ‘Jobs not rubble’ campaigners want the old Wilko saved for a trampoline park

Buzz Parks says it would spend its own money turning the empty Friars Park store into a family entertainment centre,…

Three shop staff standing in front of the TGJones store in Bridgend's Rhiw Shopping Centre, with yellow 'store closing down, up to 30% off' posters filling the window behind them
Bridgend

BRIDGEND: TGJones closing-down posters go up in the Rhiw, the second of the region’s seven at-risk stores to go

The shop that was WHSmith until last year has "store closing down, everything must go" posters in its windows at…

Computer-generated image of a white M&S Food store with a green entrance and cars in the car park in front
ALDI

BRIDGEND: First M&S in the county borough planned for Waterton Road

An M&S Food, a new Aldi and a Costa drive-through are lined up for the old car lot off the…