Fundamental changes in the UK retail industry as customers embrace new technology and new ways to shop are producing major changes in the relative importance of different payment methods. Customers did 10 per cent less of their shopping ...
Tags: Cash Payment, Retail Stores
UK retail sales values were down 2.2% on a like-for-like basis from April 2012, when they had declined 3.3% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were down 0.6%, against a 1.0% decline in April 2012. Growth was negatively ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Industry
Retail searches made by customers using tablet devices in Q1 have risen 198% year-on-year. Search volumes on smartphone devices rose 66 per cent. Total retail search volumes grew 16 per cent compared to the same period last year. ...
Tags: Toys, smartphone
UK like-for-like retail sales rose 2.7 per cent in February. On a total basis, sales were up 4.4 per cent, against a 2.3 per cent rise in February 2012. Excluding "distortions" caused by the timing of Easter in previous years, that's the ...
Tags: retail sector, retail, retail sales
Results from the first set of UK tests on beef products for horsemeat have in the main cleared the country's retailers. Products from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative Group and Iceland Foods tested negative for traces of ...
Tags: UK FSA, Horsemeat, Test Results
Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning. Snow way to run a business: Each day of ...
Tags: Big Freeze, triple-dip recession, food sales
According to the British Retail Consortium footfall in December was 1.2 per cent lower than in 2011, despite seeing a 0.4 per cent rise last November. The UK’s worst-hit locations this December were the North & Yorkshire, down ...
Tags: British Retail Consortium, UK, footfall
Sales growth lower than 2011; Toys suffer at the hands of electronic goods and tablets, says BRC. This December UK retail sales were up only 0.3 per cent like-for-like, versus a 2.2 per cent like-for-like growth in December 2011. Total ...
Tags: Toy Sales, Christmas, Toys, Online shopping