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#Retail consultant at @CannyInsights, @HighStreetsTF Expert, @PlaceManagement Fellow, and @Durham_Business vice-chair. BBC: "The NE's best-known retail expert"
Dec 21, 2021 37 tweets 9 min read
In recent days, stories on various local news websites have flagged places like #Plymouth, #Hull, #StokeonTrent and #Stockport as having the “highest number of empty shops”, according to a new survey. So, here's my take (a long thread). Let’s have a look at this in more detail, and do the one thing that often gets overlooked – scrutinising and interrogating the data on which these claims are based.