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    Article for Retail Week 27th January 2012

    01/02/2012

    Mary Mary quite contrary, how does the high street grow?

    Mary Portas is Queen of shops, but is she queen of multi channel?

    While her recent report on the challenges facing the High St. mentioned the web and mobile, not one of the 28 recommendations made referenced how they can compliment the high street. It felt like a single channel view driven by an old school retail perspective, demonstrated by the statement that “the web was one of the biggest threats to retail on our high streets.” To the contrary, for every person that buys online, around five people are…

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