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‘More shops will go' in fresh low for high street
Sunday Express
|April 24, 2022
MORE businesses will disappear from Britain's town centres this year than during the two years of the pandemic.
The stark warning comes from retail industry boss Andrew Goodacre who says all manner of high street enterprises are struggling with unprecedented operating costs while sales are falling due to a lack of consumer confidence.
Latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics on Friday showed retail sales fell by 1.3 per cent in March, and February sales figures were also down.
This story is from the April 24, 2022 edition of Sunday Express.
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