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Wales Online
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Katie Hoggan

We compared Christmas shopping now in Swansea city centre with pre-Covid 2019 and the differences are huge

Heading towards Christmas, 2019, in Swansea, you might have popped into Debenhams to visit the beauty counters, then made your way over to Topshop and Next to try on some clothes for the warmer months, before finishing it all off with a pizza at Frankie & Benny's.

That... was then.

Of course, none of us had the faintest clue at the time that it would be the last relatively normal Christmas we'd see until 2022 (fingers crossed!) or how our lives would change almost beyond recognition in the meantime. But our lives weren't the only thing that changed.

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