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The High Street’s getting younger, Bill

June 18, 2013by danthompson33 Leave a comment

Another retail expert is telling us the High Street is dead. Last year it was Westfield employee Mary Portas, this year it’s clone town retail executive Bill Grimsey. ‘The High […]

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The High Street is not dead

May 28, 2013by danthompson33 1 Comment

“The high street is not dead, it is just changing.  I’m pretty sure we will see the death of even more large companies that dominate the high street in the […]

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Comment: Portas Pilots and the Queen of the High Street

May 6, 2013by danthompson33 2 Comments

 ”They’re bound to show all the bad bits and make them look really bad, and even if nothing gets better, they’ll have to make it look as if it has.” […]

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Portas Pilots don’t deliver the revolution

May 3, 2013by danthompson33 Leave a comment

Freedom of Information requests have revealed that the second wave of 15 Portas Pilot towns have spent only 13% of the £1.5million they were granted by government. One town spent […]

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