‘Upset’ shoppers have launched a campaign to stop the closure of the Marks & Spencer on Walworth Road.
The online petition has collected 755 signatures in just two days after being launched on Wednesday, March 22.
The M&S branch which has served customers since 1913, is set to close this summer after a downturn in sales.
The petition, started by Linda Woods, said: “We have read in the local paper Marks & Spencer on Walworth Road is set to close, signalling the end of a shop that has served locals since 1913.
“We are very upset, we don’t want the store to close down.”
M&S retail bosses have only lodged a proposal to close so far but employees are already being informed about transfers to other stores.
The store was opened during the Edwardian Era, just 29 years after the first-ever shop was
founded in Leeds and one year before the outbreak of World War I.
The shop has a clothing department, bakery plus the usual food offering.
The nearest M&S stores are in Denmark Hill and Brixton but only the latter has a clothing department.