{"id":20377,"date":"2025-07-24T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20377\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:33:12","slug":"spalding-bookmark-to-close-for-good-today-with-staff-issuing-farewell-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20377\/","title":{"rendered":"Spalding Bookmark to close for good today with staff issuing farewell message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A much-loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincsonline.co.uk\/spalding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spalding<\/a> store is closing for good today \u2014 and issued a farewell message to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark, in The Crescent, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincsonline.co.uk\/spalding\/news\/popular-store-is-closing-9424207\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously revealed that it would be shutting for good on July 25<\/a> \u2014 but the shop will instead now close at 4pm today (July 24) for the last time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 5712 4284\" alt=\"Bookmark is closing today\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"HF9MEEHR75WZAYCRLE5L.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.33\"\/>Bookmark is closing today<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, staff wrote: \u201cWe&#8217;d like to let you know that as of today, we&#8217;ll be wrapping up our trading activities. It&#8217;s not an easy decision, but one made with a full heart and deep gratitude from the support we&#8217;ve received from all of you over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we close this chapter, we would like to personally thank all of our customers for your continued support and love for the bookshop and coffee house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour loyalty, trust, and encouragement have meant the world to us. While we&#8217;re closing our doors, the memories and relationships we&#8217;ve built will always remain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom all of us at Bookmark, thank you for being part of our story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 4913 3170\" alt=\"Bookmark in Spalding\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"85EP2UOPLLLQOHSJ3BZ6.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.55\"\/>Bookmark in Spalding<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, customers have snapped up cut price books as the store cleared its stock \u2014 with parts of the shop closed off gradually. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincsonline.co.uk\/spalding\/news\/popular-coffee-house-is-closing-9425352\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The coffee house closed on July 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bosses have blamed the economic conditions and said the business is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincsonline.co.uk\/spalding\/news\/owners-say-business-is-not-viable-9424907\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no longer viable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The business moved to its current site in June 1998 and had won a number of awards over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Will you miss Bookmark? Let us know your views in the comments below\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A much-loved Spalding store is closing for good today \u2014 and issued a farewell message to customers. Bookmark,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,84,96,8739,13191,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-20377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-lincs-homepage","12":"tag-spalding","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}