During the 1980s many people had good jobs and had more money to spend. They bought cars and visited the new shopping malls that were built on the outskirts of towns or at motorway junctions.
But this had a big effect in two ways: many inner city areas lost trade and became very run down; and poorer people could not get to these new shops and so found themselves losing out.
It was a sign of the growing difference between richer and poorer that happened in the 1980s.
