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The term "high street" assumed a different meaning, that of a street where the most important shops and businesses were located. [4] In Britain, the term 'high street' has both a generic and a specific meaning: people refer to 'shopping on the high street' both when they mean the main retail area, as well as the specific street of that name.
A shopping precinct (U.K. term) or pedestrian mall (U.S. term) is an area of city centre streets which have been pedestrianized, where there is a concentration of "high street shops" such as department stores, clothing and home furnishings stores, and so forth. [9]
A survey reveals the most and least popular high street shops, with WH Smith ranking last.
A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries. They form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres, standalone stores like hypermarkets and more traditional high streets.
High Street, Exeter, Devon, in 2007.A 2005 survey rated Exeter as the best example of a clone town in the UK. Clone town is a term for a town where the High Street or other major shopping areas are significantly dominated by chain stores, thus making that town indistinct from other town centres.
The Portas Review was carried out in 2011 by retail expert and television personality Mary Portas into issues affecting the retail sector in the United Kingdom, and particularly high streets. Following the review, Portas pilot areas are 12 English towns that have been chosen to participate in a scheme designed to help to rejuvenate their ...
High Street store is a term used widely in the United Kingdom where more than 5,000 High Streets where a variety of stores congregate along a main road [clarification needed]. [21] Stores situated in the High Street provide for the needs of a local community, and often give a locality a unique identity.
Street market: a public street with stalls along one or more sides of the street; Floating market: where goods are sold from boats, chiefly found in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam; Night market: Popular in many countries in Asia, opening at night and featuring much street food and a more leisurely shopping