A campaigner of the group Keep Louth Special, Nick Louth has expressed that the closure of a historic shop in a British town can result in the closure of other such shops as well. The statement by Louth has come on the devastating effect that new supermarkets by organizations like Tesco, Asda and Morrisons can have on smaller local shops.

The small supermarkets that have been planned by such organizations will be mostly small up market convenience store, which can have a negating effect on the local trade in communities.

In a survey conducted throughout the UK, local councils were asked about how many such superstores had been approved by them. Though, not everyone replied, but according to the Lincolnshire Council seven such stores had been approved.

Out of the six-stores, three had been given the green signal by the Lincoln City Council and the other half was approved by the East Lindsey District Council. If a comparison is made between different councils, it is easy to make out that the number of approvals were relatively less in Lincolnshire, as the numbers of such stores were around 22 in Glasgow and 12 in Leicester.

Keep Louth Special had been created in the year 2008, in order to protect local trade communities from the damning effect that bigger chain of stores had on them.