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S11: How to future proof our high streets, with James Daunt, founder of Daunt Books

Conversations of Inspiration

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The Importance of Independent Shops in the Face of a Pandemic

Waterstones fought to keep their branches open feeling that bookshops are essential. The government could have done what many europeans had done and said okay we understand actually retail can be run safely it is being run safely and therefore open your shops, he says. That would have saved an awful lot of businesses you know as with rates i think this government really does need to confront the clear necessity to right some wrongs or brush them under the carpet.

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