4 April 2019

Retail Reflections: A dagger through the heart of every worker on the frontline

Alan Monahan writes: Knife crime in Britain is now so commonplace that when I heard a retailer had been stabbed to death while opening his shop, and the till stolen, my first thought was, ‘Okay, the BBC say that this happened in North-West London. I could swear that Pinner was in Middlesex when I was […]

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Retail news round-up: Consumer trends and taking control; online payment scams

Identifying its 10 global consumer trends for 2019, Euromonitor International says that many of them are about ‘taking control and asserting ourselves’. It concludes that ‘in the face of turmoil and uncertainty, we feel more powerful when we go back to basics and eat an egg laid by our own hens, or actually choose to

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Garden retail defies gloomy high street outlook

While Britain’s High Streets are facing economic headwinds that have seen big name retailers consigned to history, garden centres are bucking the trend and experiencing healthy levels of growth. According to the Horticultural Trades Association, the UK garden market is worth around £5.7billion (excluding landscaping and amenity) and business is booming for the UK’s 2,300

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