"The collapse of Kwik Save leaves a lot of questions in its wake. Not least, was it trading insolvently?"

Is that it, thent for Kwik Save? A once-great discount store, a pioneer in convenience, "reduced", in the words of Withnail, "to the status of a bum". As M&S and Poundland (see p5) joined the queue expressing an interest in the 32 stores...