Covid spurred average daily closure of 48 shops, restaurants and other leisure and hospitality venues
More than 17,500 chain stores disappeared from high streets, shopping centres and retail parks across Great Britain last year as the Covid-19 pandemic spurred the worst decline on record.
An average of 48 shops, restaurants and other leisure and hospitality venues permanently closed every day across England, Wales and Scotland, and only 21 opened, according to the figures compiled by the Local Data Company, a research provider, for the accountancy firm PwC.
