Retail sales get a spring in their step
April 25, 2019
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Retail sales grew for the first time since November 2018 in the year to April, according to the latest monthly CBI Distributive Trades Survey. The
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Retail Reflections: A dagger through the heart of every worker on the frontline
April 4, 2019
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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
Retail news round-up: Consumer trends and taking control; online payment scams
April 4, 2019
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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
Garden retail defies gloomy high street outlook
April 4, 2019
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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
Single mums to splash out on themselves this Mother’s Day
March 25, 2019
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The average Brit intends to spend £17 on Mother’s Day gifts this year but one in three is not planning to get a gift for
Giftware Association announces spring seminars
March 20, 2019
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The Giftware Association has announced details of its spring seminar programme, with plenty of interesting events coming up in the next couple of months. On
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