Given the efforts Barber has made to try to make costs manageable where he can, opening up a loss-making shop must be a long way down the list of things to do next (hey Tony, I've got an idea that will increase your monthly losses by a few grand).............................if the great big...
Looks like it. £150k pa just on the lease for a typical unit ?........that's a lot of shirts and mugs.
http://www.morganwilliams.co.uk/high_street/property/69545/Unit-6--Churchill-Square-Shopping-Centre.html