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Retail news round-up: Unhappy returns; Brits are top online shoppers; fast-falling non-food prices; New Year honours

The continued surge in online shopping will see over £2.5bn of unwanted Christmas presents returned to retailers, according to LCP Consulting. Stuart Higgins, its director of retail, says: ‘The price retailers have to pay for online growth is pretty substantial.’ UK consumers lead the world when it comes to internet shopping, with an average of

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Retail Reflections: don’t despair of the data, you can still put money in the till

Alan Monahan writes: I do hope that your Christmas sales have defied the grim predictions of the doomsayers. For what is supposed to be the most joyful time of the year, recent data has been less than upbeat In my last column I said that the jury was out regarding Black Friday. Well, Visa UK

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