The End of British High Streets? (What I saw)".

Описание: *OPIS*

Over 13,000 shops closed in Britain in a single year. That's 37 a day. Consumer spending is rising. The money hasn't disappeared.

So why are the shops?

Every shop on your high street pays business rates — a tax on physical space, not profit. Designed in the late 1980s, before the internet existed. Never fundamentally changed.

A warehouse selling the same product pays a fraction of the same tax. And when a shop closes, the empty window costs the landlord less than a paying tenant.

The system doesn't just fail to save your shop. It rewards leaving it empty.

This is not a trend. It is a structure.

From Birmingham to Edinburgh — every high street is affected.

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🔗 Full breakdown + sources: [link do Substack]

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00:00 Why shops are really closing
01:20 What are business rates and why they're broken
03:10 Why warehouses pay less for the same product
05:00 Why empty shops cost landlords less than tenants
06:30 The architecture behind 37 closures a day

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