marks & spencer, went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at debenhams, mothercare and moss brose challenging here on the high street. take house of fraser, a business under pressure. it saw another fall in sales today. and you don't have to go far to see how the gap between the weaker and the stronger players is widening. here atjohn lewis, it's had no problem pulling customers in. it's one of the winners today. there's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes, for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons, but there is demand there. you just have to go and find it, and you have to create the conditions where people want things, and of course that comes down to having fabulous product. and it actually means you have to be outstanding at online and shops. this small but fast—growing online retailer is doing very nicely without shops. and is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year, but some are predicting problems for the high street ahead. this is going to be the year of retail distress. we've already seen bits of distress percolating through even before chri

marks & spencer, went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at debenhams, mothercare and moss broshigh street. take house of fraser, a business under pressure. it saw another fall in sales today. and you don't have to go far to see how the gap between the weaker and the stronger players is widening. here atjohn lewis, it's had no problem pulling customers in. it's one of the winners today. there's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes, for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons, but there is demand there. you just have to go and find it, and you have to create the conditions where people want things, and of course that comes down to having fabulous product. and it actually means you have to be outstanding at online and shops. this small but fast—growing online retailer is doing very nicely with shops. very nicely without shops. and is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year, but some are predicting problems for the high street ahead. this is going to be the year of retail distress. we've already seen bits of distress percolating through even before christ

marks & spencer, went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at debenhams, mothercare and moss bros house of fraser, a business under pressure, it saw another fall in sales today. and you don't have to go far to see how the gap between the weaker and the stronger players is widening. here atjohn lewis, it had no problems. pulling customers in. it's one of the winners today. there's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes. they're not coming in for all sorts. for perfectly understandable reasons. but there is demand there, you just have to go and find it and you have to create the conditions where people want things and of course that comes to down to having fabulous products. and it actually means you have to be outstanding at online and shops. boohoo is a small but fast—growing online retailer, which is doing very nicely without shops. ...and is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year. but some are predicting problems for the high street ahead. this is going to be the year of retail distress. we've already seen bits of distress percolating through even before chri

marks & spencer, went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at debenhams, mothercare and moss brosure. it saw another fall in sales today. and you don't have to go far to see how the gap between the weaker and the stronger players is widening. here atjohn lewis, it's had no problem pulling customers in. it's one of the winners today. there's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes, for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons, but there is demand there. you just have to go and find it, and you have to create the conditions where people want things, and of course that comes down to having fabulous product. and it actually means you have to be outstanding at online and shops. this small but fast—growing online retailer is doing very nicely without shops. and is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year, but some are predicting problems for the high street ahead. this is going to be the year of retail distress. we've already seen bits of distress percolating through even before christmas, and i think that the weaker players are going to find it too tough to really