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Retailers have spoken of their excitement ahead of the expected next step along the roadmap to ease England's lockdown, which will see non-essential shops reopen on 12 April.
Lindsey Birney, who owns Mr Wolf's toy shop in Hexham and Newcastle, says she has been surprised by a hike in local online sales including click-and-collect and doorstep deliveries since December - but can't wait to open her doors once more.
"We would never, ever, go to just being an online company. The thing about toy stores is they should be a place where kids with their birthday money [come] and it's shops like ours that provide that experience that keep High Streets alive," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
She expects to reopen across seven days but won't be taking advantage of rule changes that allow her to open until 22:00 BST.
Ian Finlayson, from the Liverpool One shopping centre, said he was "cautiously optimistic" that footfall will return, given last year's experience.
He thinks that for many the current lockdown has been the hardest of all and he expects "quite a healthy number of people" returning to physical shopping, potentially back to normal levels by June.
Finlayson said that there was a "clamour" among his retail tenants to open until 20:00 with some opening until 22:00.
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2021-04-05 07:00:44Z
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