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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