As Brexit takes its toll of businesses of all types and sizes, town centres across the country are facing major stores and small family businesses shutting down and leaving boarded up premises. This starts a change reaction as the number of people making the effort to visit any town centre falls, the shops they wanted to visit have closed or moved away to out of town shopping areas.
Update April 2019Here is a classic example of what is happening in Northampton and across towns all over Northamptonshire and the country. Peppertrees is closing. Who will be next, until the town centre is empty?
Brexit and the Internet are partly to blameFirstly Brexit. It is the uncertainty of the future and how customers are delaying purchases to see what happens after Brexit. No surprise in that. The Internet and online purchases have had a devastating effect on town centres across the country. Companies have failed to addre…