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The high street doesn't really serve any purpose for me
You're a tiny portion of the demographic.
I don't feel like such shops can make enough physical, rather than online sales
..hence the the argument for the 'death of the high street'
which is probably due to people up north having lesser disposable income.
What?
Care to elaborate on which magical hat of imaginary statements you came up with that from?
Chak
ChasnotRobert
The high street doesn't really serve any purpose for me and it's usually cheaper to shop online anyway. From experience, I think most people my age ish (21) share the same opinion. I do prefer shopping in physical shops for specific things (e.g. records, going to a record shop is an experience... digging, chatting to staff, getting recommendations etc, same when buying music equipment etc). The average high street shop doesn't offer that, and most of the time they won't have what I want anyway.
My main worry is that if a large number of bigger high street retailers shut the likes of amazon will take their place, lots of people will loose their jobs and companies such as amazon will become much more powerful than they already are. I suppose it could mean more specialist shops opening but I don't feel like such shops can make enough physical, rather than online sales to justify having a physical premises rather than just online.
I think a lot of it comes down to the level of disposable income people have. I don't notice the same issues in London with shuttered/empty shops all over the high street as I do up north which is probably due to people up north having lesser disposable income. I feel like if you have spare money you can go down high street and buy stuff without really needing it or planning the purchase, which a lot of people can't afford to do.