Tag: Retail
Non-essential retailers forced to keep prices low to entice customers
Fashion businesses in particular have been striving to outdo one another with increasingly low prices
Retailers should not become complacent about innovative in-store tech, report warns
Only half of retailers believe that they will have to implement more technology over the next five years in order to remain competitive
Pandemic e-commerce boom ‘nothing more than a positive anomaly’
Retailers should not rely on online sales remaining at 2020 levels as figures expected to plummet in 2021
Retailers desperate for ‘shopping without restrictions’ as footfall slows in June
British Retail Consortium data revealed that June footfall was down 28% by comparison to the same month in 2019
Retail CEOs demand Boris Johnson act on ‘shocking violence and abuse’ suffered by staff
Fraser Hart and John Lewis were among 100 UK retailers to sign a letter calling for legislative changes to protect shop workers
‘Shocking’ rise in retail worker abuse sees one incident every minute during pandemic
A Home Affairs Select Committee report has called on Government to act in order to put an end to the 'completely unacceptable' spike in violence and other forms of abuse towards retail workers
Spending at specialist retailers including jewellers grew 27.2% in May as more Brits shop...
Consumer spending at specialist retailers, including jewellers, enjoyed growth of 27.2% in May, according to new data from Barclaycard.
This was over four times higher...
April retail sales over 10% higher than pre-pandemic figures as customers return in droves
However, online sales did take a dive across all retail sectors as shoppers began to embrace the return to normality and bricks-and-mortar stores
West End retail footfall at 86% of Christmas 2020 peak but shop prices still...
Experts not concerned by dropping shop prices in wake of reopening and say 'we will start to see a rebalancing of consumer spend'
March retail sales top February 2020 pre-pandemic numbers, says ONS
New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that consumers were beginning to spend more in anticipation of the reopening of non-essential...