{"id":170600,"date":"2025-12-02T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:05:12","slug":"dear-vicki-what-has-gone-wrong-for-small-shops-such-as-mine-in-limerick-and-can-we-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170600\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Vicki: \u2018What has gone wrong for small shops such as mine in Limerick, and can we recover?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It can be difficult to keep a business open in this environment. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IB business closed.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">It can be difficult to keep a business open in this environment. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q I run a small shop in Limerick city, and honestly, I\u2019m feeling completely drained. I see more and more shops closing every week, costs rising, staff hard to find, and council projects that don\u2019t always feel connected to what small businesses really need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Do you have any views on the future of bricks-and-mortar retail, Vicki? I\u2019m not sure how a small shop like mine can survive, let alone thrive, in the current environment and I\u2019m definitely not sure anyone is really listening to people like me. Being from Limerick yourself, I was wondering what your take is on it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can be difficult to keep a business open in this environment. Photo: Getty Q I run a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898,29782],"class_list":{"0":"post-170600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}