Purple Tuesday: 'Shopping with a disability can be humiliating'

Stores are serving £249bn market badly, says founder of national accessibility dayGoing shopping makes Mike Adams feel “very disabled”. He says: “I can go into a shop and be made to feel invisible. There’s an apprehension. Staff are unsure of engaging with me so they swerve the conversation altogether.”Tough times on the high street mean the big retail chains are crying out for customers, yet Adams – the founder of Purple, a not-for-profit organisation t