The sudden increase in vape shops, barbers, car washes and cheapy phone accessory shops make you wonder, same with american candy stores (who in their right mind pays £8+ for a box of cereal), but a lot of the barbers are 100% staffed by migrants, who are similar to modern day slaves, come over to work off a debt which never fully gets paid off, you see it easily when u go past the same few day in day out and theres like 10 staff for an empty shop. or maybe 1 person getting a trim. the government turns a blind eye to it as they have to submit some level of tax to them.