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Retail Reflections: Businesses don’t rate appeals’ system; we’re closed – it’s raining!

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Alan Monahan writes: I suspect that to nobody’s great surprise businesses remain totally let down by CCA, the new Business Rates Appeals System. I’ve touched on this before, but now rating experts at Colliers International, the commercial property people, have solid evidence that it is clearly not working and is causing distress to retailers In

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Retail news round-up: Deflation; people who lie on their CVs; multiple difficulties

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Shop prices continued to fall in April, representing the deepest period of deflation since February last year, according to the BRC and Nielsen. There have now been five years of shop price deflation. Overall, there was a 1% decline last month, although non-food prices fell 2.2% compared to March when they were down by 1.9%.

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Retail Reflections: Call for help as small shops feel the strain; steep footfall drop; a question of confidence

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Alan Monahan writes: A bouquet for the Federation of Small Businesses, which has once again turned the spotlight on retailers. This was prompted by a rise in employment to 75.4% – the highest level since records began – and a drop in the number of self-employed people by 30,000 to 4.76 million. It is independents

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Retail news round-up: Beastly sales; rates rises hit stores; Amazon in top five

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UK retail sales suffered their biggest quarterly fall in a year as the ‘Beast from the East’ kept shoppers away from the high street. Sales volumes fell 1.2% in March, compared with February. Sales of clothing, petrol and food all suffered, according to the Office for National Statistics. Fifteen major UK retailers or restaurant groups

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Retail news round-up: Weather hits sales and Easter footfall; Cardzone and Card Factory beat the gloom

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Total like-for-like in-store sales were down by -10.1% in March from a flat base last year, according to BDO’s High Street Sales Tracker. BDO said that the second worst month on record was primarily due to the severe winter weather. Footfall dropped by -3.3% over the four-day Easter weekend from Easter last year, but Springboard

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Retail news round-up: online information; Easter sales, import duties

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An investigation by Which? has revealed that almost 50 major online retailers were misinforming or failing to provide clear information to shoppers about returns rights on their websites. The consumer champion says that as a result of its investigation 10 retailers, including Lakeland and M&S, have since updated their information to clarify the unwanted and

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