The woes of recent years for the UK's retail sector are
hardly new news. But is the well-worn, arguably rather generalised,
line that 'there's too much retail floorspace in the
UK' really true, especially when the internet is at play?
We've just seen the latest in a pretty long line of UK
retailers announcing reviews of their portfolios with a leading DIY
chain revealing a two year store closure programme and another
high street retailer saying that a third of its stores are
under review from a property perspective – for this company
that doesn't mean closures, but it's pretty likely to be a
sign of some under-utilisation. And we know from other parts of the
retail world that these household names are far from alone.
