UK retail sales declined by 0.4%, on a like-for-like basis from December 2013, when they had increased 0.4% on the preceding year, finds the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were up 1%, against a 1.8% rise in ...
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Halfords boss Matt Davies will take up role in June, while Tesco plans for 43 store closures and consolidation of head office locations. Retail giant Tesco has seen an improved performance over Christmas, with UK like-for-like sales ...
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U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...
U.S. chain-store sales rose 2.2 percent year on year for the week that ended on December 27 and included the final shopping days before Christmas, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs. ...
Overall, retail sales during the Black Friday to Christmas Eve period excluding automotive sales increased 5.5 percent in 2014, according to Mastercard Spendingpulse’s initial view on the 2014 U.S. holiday shopping season. The ...
Most of the traditional January or Boxing Day sales now start online before Christmas, even before you've had a chance to pull a cracker. Retailers are not obliged to give you a refund or an exchange if you simply decide you don??t want ...
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U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels rose a preliminary 1.4 percent year on year in November, the month that marks the beginning of the Christmas-shopping season. While the increase was disappointing, compared with the ...
Cabela's, Nike and Under Armour was among 10 online retailers that earned spots on the Kurt Salmon Santa’s Good List for Holiday Shipping for speedily delivering multi-unit Cyber Monday orders in an average of 2.6 days, more than ...
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Driven by UK sales but let down by international sales, online fashion retailer, ASOS managed to post a sales growth of 8 per cent year on year in the three months ending November 30, 2014. Although international sales dropped by 2 per ...
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Footfall in November was 2.4% down on a year ago, down on the 0.8% fall in October and below the three-month average of a 1.4% decline, reports the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor, which covers the four weeks to 29th November 2014. ...
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Amazon.com has introduced a ‘Make an Offer’ feature that allows customers to negotiate even lower prices on thousands of items. Expanding on Amazon’s traditional fixed price model, the new pricing feature allows customers ...
Online sales of Non-Food products in the UK grew 12.0% in November versus a year earlier. In November 2013, online sales rose by 16.0% over the previous year. In November online sales represented 21.0% of total Non-Food sales of the ...
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Toy chain owner, Gary Grant has said the restriction is to stop parents paying 'unfair prices on eBay'. The Entertainer is restricting sales of its Disney’s Frozen Elsa dolls to just ‘one per person’, in order to counter ...
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In a week which saw trade fuelled by Black Friday and the retailer price-matching competitor events, John Lewis delivered sales of £179.1m, up 21.8% on last year and up 56.8% on the week – the biggest ever week of sales in the ...
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In a week which saw trade fuelled by Black Friday and price matching of competitor events, John Lewis delivered sales of £179.1m, up 21.8% on last year and up 56.8% week on week to deliver the biggest ever week for sales in its 150 ...
Tags: John Lewis, Record Sales, Furniture