Robert Prestons bbc programmes showing the changes over the past 50 years ......highlights what i have been saying the past 2 years of the massive disruption and closures to many retail shops across the UK.
Infact the changes shown are even far more reaching than i had imagined........
If the trend to online buying for goods, banking, holidays, bill paying and food deliveries continues at the current rate ..... shops and outlouts will become less required like telephone booths......
Each generation in the future will use the interent more for more things....probably high street banks will be less of a need in 10 years time who knows ..but it appears to be the way things are going...and there can only be so many closed shops revamped for a different business use.....
As said before the internet impact now and the coming years on the high street .....is far bigger than the supermarket impact of years ago...and people do not only stop using UK high street shops but can order from another country online .... Reported 50,000 closed uk shops now ... could be 100,000 by 2020 at the current rate...and not helped by the costs of running a high street shop...... and a massive growing loss of revenue to many uk local councils...with that impact yet to be realised in full.....
It seems that the general amount of shops and the amount of FULL TIME workforce required in the uk is reducing......
Simple things like how to remove a oven door ...was easy solved by going on youtube and a tutourial video showed me how.... no need for a trades man to be contacted ...how to do videos are now explaining and saving many lots of money...... by doing it themselfs...the interenet is relentless in the amount of constant changes to our lives compared to 20 years ago..........
I see Barclays are down around 18p...i do not know why.....lets hope we can hold on to 360p this week as we move nearer to the next quarterly results....i believe in November...
Nice to see Jings is back....
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