By Ian Davidson
The UK and Germany are fiercely loyal when it comes to supporting home-grown businesses, according to Pitney Bowes’ Global Online Shopping Study.
Just one in five stores vacated following the high-profile administrations of HMV, Comet and others is now lying empty according to figures released today by Deloitte.
As Jessops goes into administration, we witness yet another familiar retailer who was not immune to the high street’s economic woes.
Robot workers, virtual high streets and the death of the commuter is not a future only found in the mind of science-fiction writer Alastair Reynolds. It’s all part of how we’ll be doing business 50 years from now.
By Eva Grzybek
Trouble on the British high street has been brewing for a while now, but the last 12 months have certainly been the most brutal yet. Is the internet killing retail?
