Are Birmingham’s high streets still worth visiting—or are they becoming a thing of the past?

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With more people shopping online and high streets losing stores fast, we asked people in Birmingham whether their local high street is still worth visiting—or whether it’s in danger of disappearing.

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00:00I don't think you don't need to do it anymore.

00:03I think it's much easier to just go online and everything comes at home and it's more

00:06comfortable.

00:07But if you want to walk and if you want to look at something, yeah, of course, but it's

00:11past, yeah, it's a bit past, yeah.

00:14Unfortunately, it's being destroyed, isn't it?

00:18Big companies like Amazon, they take over, everybody's shopping online and it all seems

00:23very nice now when it's nice and cheap, but when they've got the market and all the little

00:27shops have gone, they can put whatever price they want on things and you'd have to buy

00:31it because you've got no other outlet to, oh, hello, you all right there?

00:36And also councils are thunging in apartments everywhere.

00:41Yeah.

00:42Empty apartments, yeah, you're right.

00:43Where's the apartment, but where's the shops for the people to go and shop in?

00:47I will still always go to the high street for clothing, but you have to try it on.

00:51When you do it online, it's a little bit hit and miss, you don't know what it looks like,

00:54but there's certain things I would always do online compared to obviously coming out

00:58to the local shops.

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