{"id":62950,"date":"2026-05-10T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:07:19","slug":"fewer-shops-more-restaurants-in-city-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/62950\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer shops more restaurants in city centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/654c68e9cc4c0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            City centres are undergoing a major transformation, with traditional retail increasingly giving way to restaurants and service businesses.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A new study by real estate consultancy W\u00fcest Partner shows that Zurich\u2019s old town alone has lost around 110 clothing stores over the past decade &#8211; \u00a0a decline of nearly 30 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar trends are being seen across the country, including in Geneva, Lucerne and Winterthur.<\/p>\n<p>As online shopping continues to grow, businesses such as beauty salons, barbers and caf\u00e9s are expanding into smaller, more affordable spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say we&#8217;re now seeking experiences and social interaction rather than simply shopping for goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City centres are undergoing a major transformation, with traditional retail increasingly giving way to restaurants and service businesses.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":{"0":"post-62950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-anglophone-radio-station","9":"tag-broadcast","10":"tag-butcher","11":"tag-english-radio","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-expat","14":"tag-fm","15":"tag-geneva","16":"tag-geneve","17":"tag-internet-radio","18":"tag-lausanne","19":"tag-local-news-geneva","20":"tag-local-radio","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-radio-frontier","24":"tag-ski-news","25":"tag-ski-update","26":"tag-snow-report","27":"tag-swiss","28":"tag-swiss-news","29":"tag-switzerland","30":"tag-switzerland-news","31":"tag-whats-on","32":"tag-world-radio-switzerland","33":"tag-wrs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116549965974228333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}