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Could the UK become a nation of green shopkeepers?

John Alker, UK Green Building Council

10 February 2016 • 3 min read

John Alker of the Green Building Council explores how greener shops could make for more successful for retailers

Napoleon was supposed to have called the UK "a nation of shopkeepers". I imagine it wasn't meant favourably, but 200 years on and retail accounts for 10 per cent of employment, over five per cent of GDP...

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