{"id":78334,"date":"2019-02-01T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/01\/everythings-leaving-can-sheffields-high-street-survive\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:53:36","slug":"everythings-leaving-can-sheffields-high-street-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=78334","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Everything\u2019s leaving&#039;: can Sheffield&#039;s high street survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city centre has lost 18% of its shops in five years. Are high business rates and online shopping to blame?\u201cLook at it, everything\u2019s leaving,\u201d says Linda Shaw, nodding at a \u201cto let\u201d sign outside the branch of Next on Sheffield\u2019s Fargate. It\u2019s hard to argue with her. Once at the heart of the steel city, the shopping road is now pocked with vacant shops. Soon H&amp;M will follow Next in relocating outside the city centre.For residents like Shaw, 70, the deserted feeling is enough to give up shopping here altogether. \u201cThe only reason I bother to come into Sheffield now is to go to the bank because they\u2019ve closed so many outside of town,\u201d she says. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2019\/feb\/01\/everythings-leaving-can-sheffields-high-street-survive\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Everything\u2019s leaving&#039;: can Sheffield&#039;s high street survive?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city centre has lost 18% of its shops in five years. Are high business rates and online shopping to blame?\u201cLook at it, everything\u2019s leaving,\u201d says Linda Shaw, nodding at a \u201cto let\u201d sign outside the branch of Next on Sheffield\u2019s Fargate. It\u2019s hard to argue with her. Once at [&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-78334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78334","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=78334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}