News Squeezed households dampen demand ERT Editor Apr 22, 2022 Retail sales volumes fell by 1.4 per cent last month – faster than the 0.5 per cent drop in February – according to…
News Retail sales continue to recover ERT Editor Apr 23, 2021 UK retail sales volumes continued to recover in March, up 5.4 per cent when compared with the previous month,…
News February sees a tiny sales jump, while online figures soar ERT Editor Mar 26, 2021 Retail sales rose 2.1 per cent in February, compared with the steep fall (of 8.2 per cent) in January. In…
In Depth Online tools to help retailers during lockdown and beyond ERT Editor Mar 4, 2021 By Nick Brackenbury, Co-Founder of retail technology company, NearSt. Last year was a turbulent year for…
News Online shopping stopped Covid from stealing Christmas ERT Editor Mar 3, 2021 Last year, online sales in the UK accounted for 46 per cent of all retail sales, according to ONS figures – the…
News 2020 sees biggest recorded fall in retail sales ERT Editor Jan 22, 2021 Retail sales saw their biggest ever annual fall in 2020 as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll.…
News Online electricals sales soar in 2020 ERT Editor Jan 15, 2021 UK online sales growth remained solid throughout December, with a 37 per cent year-on-year increase; this also led…
News October sales see a lift thanks to pre-lockdown shopping ERT Editor Nov 10, 2020 £2bn of sales per week will be lost this month, estimates the BRC. It appears that shoppers continued to…
News John Lewis scraps staff bonus after profits hit by lockdown store closures ERT Editor Sep 17, 2020 The John Lewis Partnership will not give staff members a bonus for the first time since 1953 after this year’s…