High-street strategy: recovery will take more than street parties and more bins
- Written by Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal, University of Stirling
For politicians and pundits, the death of the British high street has long been a refrain. The pandemic has accelerated the existing trend towards online shopping.
In its recently published “levelling-up” plan for post-pandemic recovery, the UK government sets the context for its new high-street strategy for England. The big question...