General Article How Britain fell in love with online shopping

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Britain is leading the charge in ecommerce – but at the expense of the high street.

By Rosa Silverman

Take a stroll down your local high street and what do you see? Coffee shops and restaurants, probably. Some combination of vape shops, nail bars and barbers perhaps. A smattering of shuttered premises, quite likely. But when it comes to stores selling actual things – clothes, books, hardware, electronics and so on – the numbers have been dwindling for years.

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