Bradford-based supermarket, Morrisons intends to stock more British goods and is calling on specialist food producers to get in touch with their proposals. The retailer, already a long-time champion of British farmers, had a strong Christmas trading period with like-for-like sales rising by 9.3 per cent. The grocer tailors each store to local tastes and
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Supermarkets often get a bad press (with good reason) from suppliers lamenting draconian payment terms which have been known to put small companies out of business, but Morrisons is bucking the trend by paying its small suppliers immediately to help keep them afloat during this period of economic uncertainty. For the smallest suppliers, with an
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June’s good weather resulted in a marginal year-on-year improvement in footfall across the nation’s high streets, delivering the second month of consecutive growth since November 2017. However, retail parks and shopping centres have had ‘an altogether more difficult time’. The overall trend of fewer visits to bricks and mortar stores remains, said British Retail Consortium
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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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Some of the UK’s biggest retailers have pledged their support for an action plan launched by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) called Better Retail, Better World. Those already signed up to the programme include John Lewis, Kingfisher, Sainsbury’s, M&S, Dixons Carphone, Next, Boots, Aldi, Co-op, House of Fraser, Fenwick, Ikea, Lidl, Morrisons, Ocado, WHSmith, Wilko,
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The retail industry has the unhappiest staff, according to an Expert Market/Vivatic survey. Some 13% of the 2,222 respondents said they had imagined killing their boss and 30% of those in the sector claimed to hate their job. At the end of April, Eric Smith – who has designed jewellery for the Queen and the
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