Properly measured, high-street prices are probably falling at 2% a year, and the slide is deepening.
Retail banking might have been a nice earner, but their high-street operations are small and dreadful.
Egg is now considering a link with a high-street firm for this very reason.
Topshop has long been a game changer, allowing anyone and everyone to mix high-street and high-end fashion.
An alternative approach involves equipment in high-street photo stores that can produce prints from digital cameras on the spot.
The major chains are unable to consider a similar move as their revenue is based on high-street betting offices.
As these taxes are levied on imported products on top of any tariffs, it causes the high-street prices to skyrocket.
She says the firm has been in talks with major high-street retailers.
Home printing is fine for occasional prints, she notes, while high-street printing makes more sense for larger runs, such as holiday photos.
Unlike Morgan, Goldman is not rushing into high-street banking, though it plans to set up an internet bank to help gather deposits.
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Many governments therefore want to extend high-street regulations to the electronic world.
Stella Layton, chief executive of the firm, said as a result, high-street shoppers could expect to see more personalised jewellery offered by retailers.
Tessel Pauli, a spokeswoman for the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign, said activists at the scene had identified labels from European and US high-street brands.
Spanish high-street retailer Zara has been accused of allegedly accepting slave-labor working conditions supplanted by more than 30 of its outsourced plants running in Brazil.
Small firms find it hard to get loans or do not trust the high-street banks to stick with them if their businesses run into trouble.
But Spennymoor, with its boarded-up high-street shops, remains an uninspiring sight.
Furniture sellers, whose health depends less on seasonal sales and more on the overall state of the economy than most high-street shops, have been hit hardest.
Mr Makino says that the traditional distribution practices of the keiretsu, or families of firms, ensured that manufacturers had a lot of control over high-street prices.
Whereas Mr Soskin is convinced that the internet has persuaded people to travel more often, he also thinks the death of the traditional high-street travel agent has been greatly overstated.
Wiped out actual maps, cameras, diaries, phone books, to-do lists, music collections and this week in the UK, contributed to the decline of two major high-street retailers: HMV and Blockbuster.
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Arcadia Group, which owns high-street stores such as Topshop, Burtons and Miss Selfridge, will send a share of its bag sale income to children's charity Ty Hafan later in the year.
Yet the more durable legacy of the 1930s encompasses some of the most stunning examples of British public architecture, as well as the advent of high-street shopping as a leisure activity.
After becoming the youngest boss of a publicly listed German company when he took over Puma in 1993, he transformed the firm from a near-bankrupt plimsoll-maker into a trendy high-street brand.
Britain's Inland Revenue last year won a landmark case obliging Barclays, a British high-street bank, to hand over the bank details of hundreds of thousands of offshore accounts held by British residents.
While going through a high-street brand or being attracted by adverts of 0% commission is an easy option, you should shop around for the best rates and look at as many currency providers as possible.
If your eyes are bigger than your wallet, then you might be interested in the flea market held on Saturdays in Israels Plads , where high-street stores are said to unload the goodies they can't sell in their shops.
The latest high-profile high street casualty was electrical chain Comet, which closed all its 236 stores this month.
High-end street-wear shops throw in a carefully edited selection of Converse sneakers.
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