Lee Boyce

And it's like the supply lines, you know, were kind of probably similar to what it was when it was WH Smith, but just slowly have gotten a little bit worse.

And what that means is that the stores are just not appealing to go into.

And, you know, shoppers, you've got a chance with shoppers.

You know, they'll give you a chance.

And then if you don't hook them in first or maybe second time, they're not coming back.

And that's the thing.

And I think that's where it's found.

Yeah, Modelo itself has taken on these five major brands, 900 stores, 10,000 staff, 300 of these stores have already closed down.

So this is across all of the different brands that it's bought.

And one and two and a half thousand jobs have been lost.

And Charlotte Brumpton-Charles, who's National Secretary of the GMB Union, actually did a stint of work experience at the GMB Union in Wimbledon back in the day, University, interesting place, said that this is a retail bloodbath and workers are being left for dead.

I keep going to say T.J.

Jones, but I think it's T.K.

Maxx, T.J.

Hughes, then T.J.

Jones.

It's just such a mouthful.

Staff are now standing on the brink wondering if their next communities are paying the price for fouled boardroom experiments.

I can get the message.

I hate to see the high streets dying, but I think what's happening...