The high street is not having a good time at the moment, or so we are led to believe. The government even brought in some famous person who I am not too familiar with (Mary Portas) to 'revive' them, but this does not seem to be having much success, but I'm not surprised given the trend towards internet shopping and the generally depressed economic state. My take on it is that the high street was probably overblown anyway, that is it was too big for the market in the same way that the housing prices were too high etc., and the current high street shrinkage is just an adjustment down to something it should have been anyway, so a) she's wasting her time (but probably got paid handsomely for it) and b) get used to it.
It's not very good seeing boarded up shops or them being replaced by charity shops, but there's always a time lag. I'm sure someone will put them to good use later rather than sooner.
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