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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 3 January 2023 - Highest rates for 14 years
Description: One of the major issues of the Pandemic and Brexit has been the gradual demise of the High Street. It is estimated that 450 shops per day, of all sizes, closed during 2022. Another reason for the closures has been the rise of online shopping.
The British Retail Consortium has complained to the Government that they are not competing on a level playing field with online retailers, although there has been a great deal of if you can’t beat them join them from medium-sized retailers.
Quite often, the bricks and mortar shops are not beaten on price, but convenience and the an...