The high street is a strange beast, it evokes so much emotion that the thought of the end of it frightens the crap out of people. Obviously, none of us, even the journo who wrote those words actually knows what they mean by it – afterall, there will always be a street and as long as people live on that street they will need to buy stuff.
I’ve been as hypocritical as the next man over the past few years – often deriding the failures of said brand as I walk past the sad looking windows yet when I walk past again and realise it’s shut for good and in it’s place is an empty shop floor and a new ‘retail opportunity’ i miss the brand. That is the beauty and the great problem of ‘the high street’, most of us want it there for aesthetic and emotional reasons, rarely for functional ones.