Editing Lowestoft (section)

===Retailing===
The town centre is the main shopping area in Waveney district.<ref name="retail">[http://www.waveney.gov.uk/site/scripts/download.php?fileID=197 Retail and Leisure Study: Summary] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719115634/http://www.waveney.gov.uk/site/scripts/download.php?fileID=197 |date=19 July 2011 }}, Waveney District Council, 2006. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref> The retail chain [[Marks & Spencer]] has a store. Chadds independent department store was founded in 1907, and after nearly 100 years trading in the High Street, was taken over in 2004 by the [[Great Yarmouth]]-based Palmers group.<ref name="palmers">[http://www.palmerstores.com/our-stores/Lowestoft-72.php Lowestoft], Palmers Department Store. Retrieved 30 April 2011.</ref><ref name="edp17jan07">[http://www.edp24.co.uk/norfolk-life/how_we_re_keeping_our_independents_1_694095 How we're keeping our independents], ''Eastern Daily Press'', 17 January 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2011.</ref> Specialist shopping areas, branded as The Historic High Street and the Triangle Market Place, have been developed on the northern edge of the centre. Several retail parks have appeared, the largest being North Quay Retail Park in Peto Way.