MARY PORTAS Retail expert

I THINK that when it was first constructed, Stonehenge was a shoe shop. And I’m not talking about a pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap establishment like you’d find in your local shopping centre. This was definitely an exclusive, designer boutique for a refined prehistoric clientelle. I would imagine there was a big stone in the middle where the two or three different styles of shoe were set out - hand-made from leopard hide or sabre tooth tiger skin. Archaeologists haven’t found any price tickets, so we don’t know what the customers were paying for the latest footwear fashions four millennia ago, but one things for certain: If you had to ask, you couldn’t afford them.