Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Root of The Crisis -- Chapter 1 Places of Exchange -- Chapter 2 Death by Supermarket -- Chapter 3 Heading Out of Town -- Chapter 4 From Boom to Bust -- Part 2 Future Retail -- Chapter 5 Independent and Creative -- Chapter 6 Grocers and Purveyors of Fine Food -- Chapter 7 Food and Beverage -- Chapter 8 Online and e-Commerce -- Chapter 9 Sound and Vision -- Chapter 10 Home and Garden -- Chapter 11 Fashion and Beauty -- Part 3 Future High Street -- Chapter 12 The City Chapter 13 The Mall -- Chapter 14 The Town -- Chapter 15 The High Street -- Chapter 16 Conclusions: New Life for Town Centres -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits
The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn't the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour.