{"id":41404,"date":"2024-11-29T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=41404"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:34:30","slug":"independent-shop-owner-calls-to-save-shop-from-big-corporations-and-council-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/11\/29\/independent-shop-owner-calls-to-save-shop-from-big-corporations-and-council-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent shop owner calls to save shop from big corporations and council cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--700x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--700x400.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--1536x877.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--2048x1170.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--735x420.jpg 735w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--640x366.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pior-front--681x389.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PRIOR independent not-for-profit shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owner of one of Cabot Circus&#8217; few independent shop is calling for more support and better business funding to counter corporate giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beck Prior is the owner of PRIOR a not-for-profit independent art shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the government announcement of budget business rates to reform in 2026 to support smaller businesses, Prior is worried it still won&#8217;t be enough to support her businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve worked too hard to lose everything. Its been and uphill battle keeping PRIOR alive amidst retail giants,\u201d Beck says. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of one of Cabot Circus&#8217; few independent shop is calling for more support and better business funding to counter corporate giants. Beck Prior is the owner of PRIOR a not-for-profit independent art shop. Despite the government announcement of budget business rates to reform in 2026 to support smaller businesses, Prior is worried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":41411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41612,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions\/41612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}