New shopping centres are being built, like the enormous Red Sea Mall in Jeddah.
Leaflets highlighting closures have been made available at shopping centres, petrol stations and Glasgow Airport.
What will make them shop here as opposed to going to one of the other shopping centres?
Matthew Hopkinson, from the Local Data Company, said the HMV development was particularly worrying for shopping centres.
He said the High Street must work hard to compete with out-of-town shopping centres and the internet.
Other shopping centres were also claiming record numbers of visitors, including the St David's centre in Cardiff.
They created shopping centres that paid their way but did nothing for local people outside shopping hours.
Disney wanted a commercial complex of theatres, galleries, shopping centres and restaurants built adjacent to the school.
The percentage of shops lying empty in High Streets and shopping centres stabilised last year, a report says.
One is a safe and successful business hub, with new industrial parks, shopping centres and housing estates for managers.
More surprising than the rise of ethnic shopping centres outside traditional neighbourhoods is what has happened to those neighbourhoods.
But then, she admitted, she got bored and accustomed to going round shopping centres, and wanted to get a job.
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Earlier this year, a ban on "hoodies" was introduced at Bluewater in Kent, one of the biggest shopping centres in England.
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The sprouting of fancy shopping centres, yacht marinas and housing developments along Tunisia's breezy coast provided a shiny veneer of prosperity.
From shopping centres and schools, to our greatest buildings, it is claimed many of Britain's best murals are being allowed to disintegrate.
Covered shopping centres performed better but still saw a fall of 2.4%.
Mr King also said parking attendants and other contractors could be used to clear ice from footpaths, railway platforms and shopping centres.
According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), 11.2 per cent of all shops on high streets and in shopping centres are vacant.
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Matthew Hopkinson, director of the Local Data Company, which researches retail trends, said the 888 shopping centres they monitor are doing well.
The decision should provide a boost to the main shopping centres of Fishguard, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven, Narberth, Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, and Tenby.
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Ls, allowing them to pull together, say, shopping centres from several different portfolios and sell them in bulk to a single investor.
Aggressive hawkers selling fold-up umbrellas appear outside railway stations and shopping centres.
Jeans are more likely to be bought with credit cards issued by European banks in shopping centres with names like Europark and Europlex.
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Town centres could learn from out-of-town shopping centres, the Dartford MP said, citing the success of the Bluewater shopping centre in his constituency.
UK-wide footfall fell for both out-of-town destinations and shopping centres, but the high street experienced the first annual increase for three months, reaching 2.7%.
Designer labels, which Indians once travelled abroad to buy, adorn pricey goods in shopping centres all over Delhi, Mumbai and India's other big cities.
Extra buses have been laid on for shoppers heading for the West End and for the Westfield shopping centres in east and west London.
He added that while some stores may be snapped up, the vast majority of them are in shopping centres, which would be difficult to fill.
The company behind two huge shopping centres in east and west London has begun negotiations over a third complex in the south of the city.
The majority of speakers in the debate welcomed the Portas review, although Conservative Gareth Johnson criticised the retail guru for being "disparaging" about out-of-town shopping centres.
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