What shops do you miss most in Liverpool?

We've been on the streets of Liverpool to find out what long lost shops you miss most from the High Street.

Transcript

00:00Retail sales weathered a stormy January according to data from the British Retail Consortium.

00:06UK total retail sales increased by 2.6% year on year in January. This is in stark contrast

00:14to the so-called death of the high street which has been a hot topic of debate. We have been on

00:20the streets of Liverpool to find out what long-lost shops you miss most from the high street.

00:26I miss Woolies the most. It's where I went as a kid to get my box sets, my games, the pick and

00:32mixes. It just had everything in it and if I think of one shop that I wish would come back it'd be

00:36that just because everything at once. I was a charmed boy. I loved shop charmed and I used to

00:41get the box sets there every time they came out because it was always the cheapest. Woolies of

00:46course. That's going back a few decades. C&A. I remember C&A. Owen Owens, Marks and Spencer's

00:54in the Strand. That's gone now. Blacklars. I remember going to Blacklars with my mum

01:01to see Santa. That was a long time ago. My mother told me decades ago that she took me and my sister

01:08to Blacklars Grotto and I did enjoy seeing the Father Christmas by the pier head at the museum.

01:18Liverpool is once again ahead of the curve as the beginning of the year saw monthly retail sales

01:23of 58.2 million pounds which is a year-on-year increase of 3.7%. This is despite a decrease of

01:318.2% in customer numbers. Shops are disappearing fast and getting being taken over. That's life

01:39isn't it? I think there's a place for everything. It's just how people go about it. I think the way

01:42things are now people seem to come out more often if they feel like they need to try on clothes

01:47or if there's an event going on that then they bounce off. I think for me working in the city

01:52centre that's when I see more people out and about is when they go to an event and then

01:58they do the shopping whilst they're around it.