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Retail news round-up: Footfall and sales; Boost for NEC; John Lewis ‘pilot stores’

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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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Retail Reflections: Shoppers’ needs; why M&S is pants; a bank’s PR tosh

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Alan Monahan writes: Since Marks & Spencer announced that it was closing 100 stores over the next four years, the world and his wife seem to have had their say on how the high street can be saved. Well-meaning people are coming out of the woodwork to vow their allegiance to physical stores. Lucy Mangan,

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Retail news round-up: Online parcels; falling prices; worst and best retailers

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Online retail parcel delivery order volumes were up + 13.9% year on year in April, according to IMRG data. Easter fell early this year (in March), so a dip in volumes may have been expected in April due to a tough comparator with last year, when Easter was in April. However, the monthly decline on

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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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