>If there is any hope for the high street it's in focusing on the customer experience rather than trying to compete on price. Which the ma & pa stores that are

>If there is any hope for the high street it's in focusing on the customer experience rather than trying to compete on price. Which the ma & pa stores that are taking smaller units provide - the problem is the big units that the department stores vacate; only supermarkets & discounters want them. I think that the big hope for the highstreet is the coming correction in commercial property - eventually rents must fall, when they do the highstreet should repopulate.