Lee Boyce

Again, I'm sure I've said this before, but it feels like the big high streets, the big main cities, excluding London, but the main kind of... I'm talking about cities with 100,000, 150,000 people.

It feels like people are getting sucked out of the high street and they're keeping it more to their local community.

And I feel like they're thriving much more

away from all of the big chains you know these smaller high streets towns of 25 to 50 000 people they still have chains but they have a lot more independent shops that seem to be thriving a lot more and then you only have to see these out-of-town retail parks at the weekend

That's where everyone's going.

And those car park, absolute hellish places to be.

But people seem to love them.

You know, free parking for one.

You can take your shopping from the shop to your boot pretty quickly rather than having to navigate the high street and having it all on.

And things are just changing.

The world is changing.

And as you say, I think W.H.

Smith kind of wanted to focus on its profit-making part of the business, which is train stations, airports.

You know, the W.H.

Smith and Liverpool Street train station, it's about four quid for a bottle of water or something.

Yeah.

It's maybe a bit unfair.

Maybe it's a little bit less than that.

But it's one of the most expensive shops you can ever imagine.

When did we start paying like £1.50 for a bag of crisps?