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Robinson spoke at length about her job, the major changes she has made since taking over, the current and future state of the high street for shoppers and how much ethics, values and principles play a part in consumer decisions.
Speaking about the future of the high street, she said: “I think the high street will just continue to evolve. Some businesses will last, some of them will be replaced by other things.”
On the podcast, Robinson also talks at great length about her passion to enact change when it comes towards shop worker safety. She said: “We have shared a lot about making the environment itself being really welcoming from a customer’s perspective, I think that’s absolutely crucial. But there’s something that’s very close to our hearts at Central England Co-op, and it’s actually the safety of our colleagues.
“So something that we’re trying to do is to really raise the awareness and each time there is an incident we write to our local MPs, we write to the home secretary, and we would be looking for a change in the law that really gives the same custodial sentence to violence against shopworkers that you get from public service workers.”
Listen to Robinson on the More Than a Shop podcast via morethanashop.coop.
