More than 60 high street bosses have warned that many stores may never reopen if the lockdown is extended.
Steve Rowe of Marks & Spencer, Alex Baldock of Dixons Carphone, Will Kernan of River Island, Peter Cowgill of JD Sports, and Christos Angelides at Reiss, are among those to have raised concerns that thousands more retail jobs will be at risk if the lockdown extends into the Christmas trading period.
In a letter to the government signed by 61 retail chief executives, they say that the closures have deprived retailers of £2bn a week, while November and December account for a fifth of the year’s retail sales.
