Alan Monahan writes: Since Marks & Spencer announced that it was closing 100 stores over the next four years, the world and his wife seem to have had their say on how the high street can be saved. Well-meaning people are coming out of the woodwork to vow their allegiance to physical stores. Lucy Mangan,
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The former head of Wickes, Iceland, Booker and Focus DIY, Bill Grimsey, has reopened the Grimsey Review of British retail, following on from his first research mission, published in 2013. Grimsey’s clarion call for the high street was partly triggered by the collapse of Toys R Us and Maplin as multiples wrestle with daunting new
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Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring budget was meant to squash the doom and gloom and present a picture of hope for the British economy, with a forecast that envisaged more growth coupled with less inflation and debt in the year ahead. For the retail sector his March 13 speech set a new date of 2021 for
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