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Edinburgh Live
National
Steven Brown

Edinburgh locals say it's 'painful' to watch iconic shopping street 'collapse slowly'

Edinburgh's iconic Princes Street has lost more than a quarter of its retailers since 2020.

The main thoroughfare was once well-known for its shopping and especially its department stores like Jenners, House of Fraser and Debenhams - but they are now gone.

Along with retail stores all over Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, the street was hit hard by the pandemic while some outlets moved to the newly opened St James Quarter.

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