"closed shops" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to stores or businesses that are no longer open. Example: Recently there have been a number of closed shops in our area due to the economic downturn.
He has also closed shops and sold off the fledging M Local convenience store brand.
In Bangui, panicked residents closed shops and schools after radio stations broadcast news of the rebel advance.
As the big chains closed shops, total sales fell and improvements in those still trading were masked.
Over the years, Rough Trade has opened and closed shops in San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo, and the risks seem higher than ever before.
However, the company's manufacturing facilities are thought to have spare capacity after it closed shops and pulled out of convenience stores, paving the way for the Amazon deal.
"For a party that has rightly, in my view, campaigned hard against closed shops in the industrial relations arena, we should not allow it to continue".
Whilst some of the reporting closed shops, most obviously the political lobby, confer benefits, being outside it does not hamper quality political journalism.
It was that rare travel experience of seeing mostly closed shops and businesses and still not feeling cheated, because the streetscape alone was worth the trip.
There is no such thing, not since 1947, when closed shops – arrangements where union membership was a condition of employment – were banned under the Taft-Hartley Act.
And there are also Egyptians who are worried about the effects of the national hiatus, about a power vacuum, about economic confusion, missing police, closed shops, and a disrupted tourist season.
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