infection

Recent news reports regarding Marks & Spencer’s shop closures have left other high street retailers feeling fearful about profits. With plans to close 100 stores by 2022, in what M&S bosses are calling a re-organization of the…

The high street is reeling after a winter of ill health. Toys R Us, Maplin, House of Fraser, Claire’s: it seems that even stalwarts of the retail landscape aren’t immune to rising rents, the burgeoning ecommerce market and wavering consumer…

Toys R Us has gone into administration, putting 3,000 UK jobs at risk. Equally, Maplin has come crashing down. In the past months more and more retail companies and big high-street names have hit the deck. Are these signs of an infected era…