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World Service,25 Jan 2018,17 mins

Requiem for the Shopping Mall

Business Daily

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What is the future for physical retail space when so much shopping is shifting online? Presenter Manuela Saragosa gets the views of retail analyst Kate Hardcastle. Plus, Vivienne Nunis reports from Kenya, where some are asking whether the middle class has enough spending power to sustain the country's shopping mall construction boom. And Lesley Curwen gives her take on the dangers of price comparison websites when shopping online. (Picture: An old abandoned shopping cart rot along with a used plastic cup in the green dirty water; Credit: iShores/Getty Images)

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