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E-tailing - has the revolution arrived? 10:51am on 14 Jan 2009 Online retail has so far tended to do disproportionately well with high ticket items (eg travel and electronics), where the consumer may well use all the resources of the High Street going into shops and using up High Street retailers time and real estate and then when they've decided what to buy they go online to pick it up at the cheapest place possible.

Given it's often the juiciest stuff the High Street is losing to the Internet, it doesn't take much of a fall to have a significant effect on profit.

And of course if one distinguishes between out of town shopping and true High Street, it looks even worse for the long term future of the true High Street..

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