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We must act fast to save our high streets as stores continue to close

It’s no secret our high streets are struggling. Even before Covid lockdowns and spiralling inflation, more of us were choosing to shop online.

Our town centres have lost a variety of familiar names in recent years as retailers struggle to make ends meet. Clothes retailer M&Co has now become the latest casualty of changing shopping trends.

The Renfrewshire -based firm, which used to be known as Mackays, is one of Scotland’s best-known clothing chains. But it will now close all 170 of its stores by this spring.

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