The Daily Mirror-backed High Street Hero Awards have honoured four exceptional independent retail businesses from around the UK as the British high street continues to battle through its toughest trading for decades. The Daily Mirror selected one winner from each country in the UK. The High Street Hero nominations are part of the Great British
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The #BlockFriday / #BoycottBlackFriday hashtags and rival #indieweek / #indiefriday campaign indicated that forces were rallying in opposition to what many see as the low point of the retail calendar, Black Friday (BF). Many stores ran promotions for the whole of the week and will continue them through the weekend and into Cyber Monday on
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Online marketplace, OnBuy.com, surveyed 2,424 British consumers to gage their feelings about the closure of high street stores. The survey comprised shops that have faced administrators, and subsequent closures – from Woolworths to Jane Norman and Comet – and required respondents to select the shop they wish they could bring back in time for Christmas.
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Consumer watchdog, Which? has found that independent retailers and services have taken precedence over multiple retail giants and department stores on British high streets. The watchdog analysed some 1.5 million Ordnance Survey records comparing British retail and services between 2014 and 2019, finding that specialist retailers, markets, HoReCa businesses and experiential services are enjoying a
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With up to 74% of high street retailers not having an active social media presence, Polly Barnfield OBE, a member of the government’s High Street Task Force urged Chesterfield’s shops and market traders to adopt social media and use it to deliver both improved footfall and sales on demand. Speaking at the sell-out 2019 Chesterfield
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A study carried out by the Local Data Company (LDC) and consultancy firm, PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC), has found that some 16 shops are closing every day, with retailers being forced to restructure and consumers increasingly shopping online. The study found that a net total of 1,234 shops closed on the top 500 high streets in Britain
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