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Online retailers under pressure due to lack of warehouse space

Online retailers across the UK will come under “sustained pressure” before the end of the decade because of a shortage of logistics warehouse space, according to a new report by property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton. The property firm states that demand for industrial space will exceed the country’s available supply by 25 million square...

Fashion

Pop-up stores won't save high street

A new report says that pop-up stores will not save the UK's ailing high street. While temporary stores, better known as pop-ups, will find it easier to inhabit unused spaces via new planning laws, in the long term it will not ease the pressure on the country’s struggling high streets, says one expert. The Government has announced a relaxation in...