Have you walked down the eastern end of Oxford Street recently? How do those emporiums selling ‘tourist’ crap survive? Usually empty of customers, they are purveyors of low-margin stock from high-rent retail spaces to, judging from the routine absence of punters, an indifferent public. I’m afraid there can only be one answer: money laundering.
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Even 10 years ago when I still lived in Camden, that end of Oxford Street was always a shambles. I used to walk around the back way to Cavendish Square and come out next to John Lewis.
Cheers, Pete.
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The further east you go towards Centre Point the worse it gets.
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