Shops can't save UK high streets but a dose of local character could help them thrive again
- Written by Edward Thomas Jones, Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
High St, Conwy, Wales. Some places have already started to inject some local flavour to their high streets.James Clarke/ShutterstockCratering consumer confidence and the collapse of major UK retailers like Wilko are causing concern about the future of the UK high street.
Both of the major UK political parties proposed solutions to this challenge...
