First came out-of-town shopping centres, then came internet shopping and finally recession: the challenges of the last decade have had a transformative effect on the Scottish high street by making it ever harder for retailers to survive.
First came out-of-town shopping centres, then came internet shopping and finally recession: the challenges of the last decade have had a transformative effect on the Scottish high street by making it ever harder for retailers to survive.
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Aside from chi chi suburbs with enough wealthy inhabitants to support a deli, a wine shop and a gift emporium, the bustling traditional high street, where adults bought their groceries and children spent their pocket money, is a thing of the past: that much is now clear. On many town thoroughfares the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker have been replaced by the bookie, the pound shop and the vacant lot. With one in 10 Scottish shops now lying empty, a marked increase on the same period last year, it further emphasises the need for radical new thinking about the future of our high streets.
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Rates review could boost business in the high street
First came out-of-town shopping centres, then came internet shopping and finally recession: the challenges of the last decade have had a transformative effect on the Scottish high street by making it ever harder for retailers to survive.
Aside from chi chi suburbs with enough wealthy inhabitants to support a deli, a wine shop and a gift emporium, the bustling traditional high street, where adults bought their groceries and children spent their pocket money, is a thing of the past: that much is now clear. On many town thoroughfares the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker have been replaced by the bookie, the pound shop and the vacant lot. With one in 10 Scottish shops now lying empty, a marked increase on the same period last year, it further emphasises the need for radical new thinking about the future of our high streets.
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