{"id":24048,"date":"2020-02-08T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24048"},"modified":"2020-02-08T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:30:34","slug":"abingdons-h-samuel-store-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24048","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon&#8217;s H. Samuel store to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20020802.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel store to close\" \/><br \/>\nJewellery chain H. Samuel will not be renewing the lease on their store in Abingdon. They have been at 25 Bury Street since 1984. A sign says, <em>&#8216;Sorry we&#8217;re leaving. This store is closing.&#8217;<\/em> The other sign in the window saying &#8216;<em>Make Valentine&#8217;s Day last forever.<\/em>&#8216;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20020801.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel store to close\" \/><br \/>\nThe company commented recently on similar closures in Bridlington, Hereford, and Llandudno, &#8216;<em>We continually re-assess our portfolio of stores on a store-by-store basis, particularly when individual store leases come up for renewal<\/em>.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>There remain about 300 H Samuels nationwide. Four jewellers will remain in Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewellery chain H. Samuel will not be renewing the lease on their store in Abingdon. They have been at 25 Bury Street since 1984. A sign says, &#8216;Sorry we&#8217;re leaving. This store is closing.&#8217; The other sign in the window saying &#8216;Make Valentine&#8217;s Day last forever.&#8216; The company commented recently on similar closures in Bridlington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}