{"id":135365,"date":"2020-03-09T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/09\/perfect-storm-of-bad-weather-and-business-rates-fuels-retail-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T01:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:01:48","slug":"perfect-storm-of-bad-weather-and-business-rates-fuels-retail-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=135365","title":{"rendered":"Perfect storm of bad weather and business rates fuels retail crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe rain in February caused a 7.8% fall in the number of people visiting high streetsThe crisis on Britain\u2019s high streets showed no sign of easing during the storm-buffeted month of February, while new figures show the number of retail workers losing their jobs this year is approaching 20,000.Severe rain last month caused a 7.8% fall in the number of people visiting high street stores in February, according to the retail research company Springboard, whereas there was only a 1.1% fall in the numbers at retail parks. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/mar\/09\/perfect-storm-of-bad-weather-and-business-rates-fuels-retail-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect storm of bad weather and business rates fuels retail crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe rain in February caused a 7.8% fall in the number of people visiting high streetsThe crisis on Britain\u2019s high streets showed no sign of easing during the storm-buffeted month of February, while new figures show the number of retail workers losing their jobs this year is approaching 20,000.Severe rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}