The high street is back from the dead
Jan 14, 2022
3 minutes
Matthew Lynn City columnist
Ever since Woolworths closed its doors for the final time in 2008, the post-Christmas retail collapse has been as much a part of the festive season as leftover turkey and worryingly high credit-card bills. Retailers are critically dependent on the festive season, often the one month when they actually make any money. Many of them would hang on, hoping that Christmas would save them for another year. When that didn’t
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