Editing Worcester, England (section)

===Retail trade===
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The city is a major retail centre, with several covered shopping centres to accommodate the major chains and many independent shops and restaurants, particularly in Friar Street and New Street.

Worcester's main shopping centre is the High Street, with several major retail chains. The High Street was controversially part-modernised in 2005, and further modernised in 2015; with current redevelopment of Cathedral Plaza and Lychgate Shopping Centre. Much of the protest came at the felling of old trees, the duration of the work (caused by weather and an archaeological find) and removal of flagstones outside the city's 18th-century Guildhall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2014 |title=At least £500000 to be pumped into sprucing up Worcester City Centre |work=[[Worcester News]] |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/11639198.At_least_500_000_to_be_pumped_into_sprucing_up_Worcester_city_centre |url-status=live |access-date=4 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803052226/http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/11639198.At_least_500_000_to_be_pumped_into_sprucing_up_Worcester_city_centre/ |archive-date=3 August 2017}}</ref>

The other main thoroughfares are the Shambles and Broad Street. The Cross and its immediate surrounding area are the city's financial centre for most of Worcester's main bank branches.

There are three main covered shopping centres in the city centre: [[CrownGate Shopping Centre]], Cathedral Plaza and Reindeer Court. There is also an unenclosed shopping area immediately east of the city centre called St Martin's Quarter. There are three retail parks, the Elgar and Blackpole retail parks located in the [[inner suburb]] of Blackpole, and the Shrub Hill Retail Park in neighbouring St Martin's Quarter. Retailers such as [[Asda]], [[B&M]] and [[Aldi]] are all located close to St Martin's Quarter.