Trade: Retail News

Some 57,000 retail jobs were shed in 2019, according to the latest retail employment monitor from the British Retail Consortium (BRC). In the fourth quarter of 2019, there was a ...

Albemarle & Bond Pawnbrokers (A&B Pawnbrokers) and Herbert Brown have shuttered stores across the country, in a sudden move that has left customers in the dark over the whereabouts of ...

Jeremy Corbyn has pledged a £10 an hour minimum wage for all workers over 16 if his party is elected to government. In a speech delivered to the Trades Union ...

The number of insolvencies in the UK has fallen by 14% for the second quarter of this year. The study compiled by ‘Big Four’ firm KPMG found that 310 companies ...

Footfall declined by 2.9% in June, attributed to the “exceptional and ongoing disruptive political and economic period”, according to retail intelligence firm Springboard. On a three-month basis, footfall decreased by ...

On a total basis, sales decreased by 1.3% in June, against an increase of 2.3% in June 2018, according to new data from the BRC. The group said the decline ...

Market research company GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index has showed that confidence among consumers in the UK has decreased by three points to -13 in June. The measure for the ...

The quantity bought in May 2019 decreased by 0.5% when compared with the previous month, with a strong decline of 4.5% in clothing sales, according to new figures from the ...

May continued the 2019 trend of below-average online sales growth, with a marginal 1.9% year-on-year (YoY) increase, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index. When compared to this ...

Footfall declined by 3.5% in May, compared with the same point last year when it declined by 0.4%, according to the latest BRC-Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. On a three-month ...