On the last ‘quarter day’, in March, many stores didn’t pay their landlords. This week, things could be even worse
The reopening of thousands of stores, combined with May’s 12% rebound in sales, has provided some respite for Britain’s’s battered retailers, but the high street crisis is far from over – not least because a monster £2.5bn quarterly rent bill falls due this week.
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