Central News East: 10.04.1990: High Street Shopping

Summary

Anna Soubry item about the fall in high street spending after the boom time of the 1980s.

Year:

1990

Duration:

0:01:52

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

During the 1980s shopping became a leisure activity but it is thought that the boom is now ending due to rising interest and mortgage rates leading to people having less money to spend. Library shots of shopping centres including the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Interview with business analysist James Trahearn who predicts that in the future more people will shop at out-of-town centres that include parking and may also increasingly use mail order companies.


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