it's only a matter of time before they close all their counters as Sainsubry's and Tesco have..

Saino's?!

I suspect if the High Street stores are sold off then whoever buys them will want to keep the WHSmith brand name so maybe they would operate under a franchise?

Sainsbury's in Hedge End, Southampton still has the old SAINSBURY'S logo on the entrance to the staff car park as seen here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9208299 ... entry=ttu

My local store (Hedge End, Southampton) had it's Pharmacy removed several months ago, I was expecting them to install more shelving however it's just a large empty space, does anyone know what the plan is for these spaces?! Also recently a load more staffed checkouts were removed leaving only 10 ...

a real shame about Paperchase, will definitely be a gap in the High Street for a more premium card and stationery shop

Sainsbury's are closing the majority of their Cafe's - some to be run by external companies such as Carluccio's or Starbucks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60574697

There's some interesting ideas in this article on what might happen to some of the units, personally I'll miss Debenhams, I worked at their Southampton store for several months back in 2005...

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/lei ... r3z-addoor

I wonder what's going to happen to all the Debenhams stores around the country, it's gonna leave some pretty big gaps in city centres - especially in shopping centres where they were the anchor store. Should the government be doing more to support stores and the High Street in general?

https://www ...

I do wonder how Debenhams let it get to this point. We don't know all the details of course, but you have to wonder how many of their stores were loss making and falling to bits - and dragging the whole brand down as a result. Why not focus on the stores that do make a profit, invest in the ones ...

Is it just me or has the demise of Topshop/Man felt incredibly quick? I'm sure it was only two years ago the stores (in London at least) were still regularly very busy. Come this summer and with capacity restrained it was pretty much the only clothes shop in Westfield that didn't have a queue ...