tall times on the tall streetDEMORALISED shoppers on London’s overcrowded Oxford Street can now leaven their day with a few rounds of crazy golf. Swingers has just opened near Oxford Circus. Customers can putt away on helter-skelter or big-wheel themed courses and refresh themselves at four cocktail bars. The venue,already popular with hen parties and corporate beanos, is on the site of the former flagship store of BHS, and a fashion retailer that went bust two years ago.
Swingers is one of the businesses that is filling up the acres of floor space vacated by the recent collapse of some of Britain’s most famed tall-street brands,as well as many lesser-known ones. Near to the old BHS store is another sinking flagship, House of Fraser. On June 7th the company announced that it was closing 31 of its 59 shops, and with a loss of up to 6000 jobs. This continues the worst flee of closures on Britain’s tall streets since 2010,just after the financial crash. final year there was...
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Source: economist.com