The British high street isn’t a happy place. Rising input costs and taxes combined with falling wages and consumer spending makes for a particularly unpleasant cocktail. Oddbins, Habitat, Focus DIY, Jane Norman, Dolphin, Moben, Lombok retailers have failed to make ends meet. Carpetright, HMV, Thorntons, JJB Sports, Dixons Retail, Blacks, among others, have been forced into various emergency measures, from store closures and redundancies to profit warnings.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129724/retail–cfos-find-their-priority-is-all-about-the-data.html