Stores that will disappear from our High Streets in the next decade or so?

[IanD]

Easy to blame Brexit on stores closing but the Internet and ridiculous rents & rates are the biggest reason why our High Streets have become coffee & haircut zones!

In the next decade I can see lots of businesses disappearing:-

Travel Agents ........ lots of people book holidays online nowadays
Bookmakers
Book shops
Record Shops (HMV)
Departmental stores

I can even see libraries becoming obselete.

Libraries....ours has gone volunteer-led but serves more of a community function now. Cost saving for the council....yes. Does the idea work...so long as there are enough trained volunteers but I can see that changing over the next 10 years.
As for the others...apart from a bit of holiday cash, I used a travel agents 6 years ago and before that probably in about 1999. Banks are stuffed too. Bookies....going, going....
Record shops.... a few hang on and departmental stores are becoming a thing of the past. Basically the high street is no longer needed apart from grub and booze.