Will we mourn the loss of WH Smith from the high street? So long then, WH Smith, a firm which has graced our high streets for more than a century – even though it never intended to. The plan pulled off and soon the firm had a chain of dozens – later hundreds – of High Street stores up and down the country. A changing high streetIt will mean the departure from the high street of Britain’s oldest major retail brand. Maybe we should call time on the high street and prostrate ourselves before the mercy of the e-commerce gods.