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Antonio Bellini said his first customer had been window shopping outside the store a week before he opened. He said: "Funnily enough, the man who bought the pair of shoes in the window, he was looking through my window when I was cleaning it about a week ago. So he'd already seen them in the window, the shoes that he desperately wanted." Antonio Bellini, owner of the Italian Shirt Shop - Credit: SARAH LUCY BROWN Andrews Jewellers, Buttermarket, Ipswich: a pair of wedding rings Alan Greenwood, manager of Andrews jewellers at the Buttermarket, said the shop had been busy with sales, resizin...

"We are pleased that the Chancellor has delivered the vast majority of our immediate requests and those of our members, including an extension to the furlough, self-employed, business rates relief and VAT deferment schemes. "We are also relieved that the increases in corporation tax will not take effect until 2023. Lobbying by Suffolk Chamber and other chambers across the country has clearly and demonstrably worked." David Burch, director of policy at Essex Chamber of Commerce, however, sounded a more cautious note. He said: "As with all Budget announcements the devil is always in the detail ...

Leading Ipswich clothes store Coes has hailed plans to reopen shops by April following the third national coronavirus lockdown as "good news".

Leading Ipswich clothes store Coes has hailed plans to reopen shops by April following the third national coronavirus lockdown as "good news".

Indies adapt to online shift Independent retailers are adapting to a fundamental shift towards online trading, as uncertainty over when stores will reopen continues. The on-off openings of physical stores over the last 10 months has forced independent retailers to divert their focus to online. Several retailers have told Drapers the shift of focus to online will continue long after stores reopen. Abigail Edmunds, owner of Domino, a Stratford-upon-Avon-based womenswear store, said the business’s budget has been redirected to accommodate and embrace the move to online. Revenue from online sal...