DuckHairback wrote:
I've got fond memories of it too but it went out of business for a reason. Times change. I don't think the 'high street' is coming back, people should accept this and get on with repurposing the space for modern times. Retail is out, except for niche/boutiquey stuff and residential and cultural is the way forward.
Clinging on to the idea of high streets being retail only is part of the reason most of our high streets now look terrible with empty units and charity shops everywhere.
If they bring Woolworths back they'll get a brief nostalgia bump then it will go south again.
Didn't Woolworths go out of business following the financial crisis?
Maybe it could survive in today's economy - although having said that, it isn't even that great now, is it?
I think it depends on the area in terms of whether retail is doing well. In some cities, retail has recovered reasonably well after the pandemic ruined things. But in other places the pick up hasn't been seen, or has been slow.
I don't think retail is completely dead, or will be for a few decades at least, until all of the older folk pass away.