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	Online spending shows strong annual growth in January

hjharris

3-13-2009 2:00 AM

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hjharris says:

The tipping point of the high street?

With profit margins increasingly constrained on the high street together with increasing costs of renting and local business rate taxes. is it not surprising that we see so many boarded-up shops

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