High Street sales collapse was a ‘Freedom Day’ own goal, says ParcelHero

High Street sales collapse was a ‘Freedom Day’ own goal, says ParcelHero
The end of Covid restrictions was supposed to boost July’s retail sales, but the spreading Delta variant drove anxious shoppers back into their homes. ParcelHero warned last month that two-thirds of shoppers did not want to see such a drastic end to protective measures. The home delivery expert ParcelHero says it warned the Government as early as 9 July that ‘Freedom Day’ plans to relax Covid measures would backfire. Now the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) retail sal...

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