By David Reed

Almost half of us have shopped online in the last 12 months and this year alone and high street sales are down by as much as 5 per cent in many cities. You just need to look at the number of electronics retailers, wine merchants or bookstores we (‘we’ being Babyboomers or even Generation Y) considered household names that are now gone. In addition the success of discounters, such as Aldi and Lidl and fashion chains like Primark, has created a race to the bottom. Shoppers now see value as synonymous with ‘low cost’.

It’s now strikingly obvious that traditional Read full story ›

Source: The Drum