Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, which showed sales down 0.1% by value, and down 0.8% by volume, Kris Hamer, Director of Insight at the British Retail Consortium, said: “It has been a gloomy start to Summer spending. Sales volumes declined in June, falling for the fourth time in six months due
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The Horticultural Trades Association’s (HTA’s) newly released November Market Update shows, despite Storm Babet and the wettest October since 1998, that UK garden centre retail saw positive trends in the last month. Fran Barnes, Chief Executive of the HTA said: “Despite the challenges posed by the wettest October in decades and shifting consumer trends, our
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The Office for National Statistics has reported that retail sales volumes rose by 1.4% in April 2022 following a fall of 1.2% in March 2022 (revised from a fall of 1.4%); sales volumes were 4.1% above their pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) February 2020 levels. In the three months to April 2022, sales volumes fell by 0.3% when
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According to the Office of National Statistics, retail sales volumes fell by 0.2% in September 2021, pulled down by lower sales in non-food stores as household goods stores sales volumes fell by 9.3% compared with August. Non-food stores as a whole saw monthly sales volumes fall by 1.4% in September 2021 and were 1.7% below
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German shops sold more in November 2020, while the unemployment rate was lower than expected over December, according to figures from the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office) and the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency). German shops reported a 5.6% increase in revenue compared to the same month in 2019 and 1.9 percent compared to
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The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has reported that total retail sales decreased by 4.3% between March 1 and April 4 2020, compared with a decrease of 1.8% in March last year. This is the worst decline since the retail sales monitor began in January 1995. The last two weeks of March saw a sales decline
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