Bristolians Discuss the future of our high street

Today we ask locals: With shops like River Island closing, what do you think our high streets will look like in five years?

Transcript

00:00I'm in a bit of a sorry state to be honest. It's quite hard to buy things and I'm going to sound

00:04really old-fashioned because I know young people love online but I prefer to just sort of feel the

00:09texture, see the quality of it and try it on there and then. So I don't think they're going to look

00:14great. It's down to us really. I mean you know the problem with the high street shops and everything

00:19is the problem with everywhere else that everything is too expensive. What I would like to see is

00:23more independent local businesses. I don't really care about one big brand being like oh we're not

00:29making as much money. We're closing it. Now of course that's bad for people losing their jobs don't get

00:32me wrong but I feel like the shops I would like to see already have a huge problem and I don't think

00:38it's going to get better. I want high streets to be to be there but like I never really shop at like

00:43your River Island stuff. I'm a big I'm a big charity shop guy. Local retailers and stuff like that.

00:50So the more Oxfams I see I think the better.

00:53And yeah I mean you I want I want high streets to still be there.