This has become common place in most UK towns since 2008. About half of all retail units/properties are now empty in British high streets.

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Where have all the High Street shops gone? How one of Britain's biggest town centres is 'dying on its feet' after spiralling rents and online competition forced all its big stores (bar Primark) to close

Shocking pictures of deserted streets and shuttered shops in Wigan lay bare UK high street crisis

Wigan has been hit by combination of spiralling rents, internet competition, and claims of corporate greed

It has led to store closures - including a Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, BHS, H&M and Next

Though lockdown appears to have dealt the final blow, UK high streets have been in decline for years

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-10966469/Toxic-rents-online-competition-turn-Wigan-ghost-town.html