Stores have united behind the Mirror’s Shop For Britain plea, and urged the public to spend, spend, spend to save livelihoods.
Non-essential shops reopen in England tomorrow after 12 weeks. Thousands of businesses, from a tiny boutique in Cheshire to mega-chains M&S and John Lewis, have signed the Mirror’s Shop For Britain letter urging people to use their spending power to save high streets.
The letter, printed on this page, also backed by trade bodies such as the CBI and Institute of Directors, tells shoppers: “Every penny you spend, every purchase you make, is a shop kept afloat and a job maintained.” Treasury figures show 1.3 million are employed by shops, which provide £46.6billion a year to the economy.