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, at the start, the number of openings outnumbered the closures. Linking Words
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, quite the opposite happened in the year 2018, with closures having a higher count than launches.
As shown on the graph, the number of shops that met the start stood at slightly more than 8500 in 2011, a year later it witnessed a dramatic drop to around 3900 before reaching 6100 in 2014. Amount of openings remained unchanged between 2015 and 2016. It reached its lowest point in 2018 which was 3000.
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, the number of closures started fluctuating from 2011 to 2014. It experienced a considerably high fall from 6500 to around 600 in 2015 and Linking Words
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had a drastic rise to 5100 in 2016Linking Words
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fluctuating slightly for the rest of the years.Linking Words