London shoppers set to spend around £1.7billion – £3million a minute over nine hours of trading – amid fears the capital city is about to move into tier 3 restrictions. With 60,000 shoppers expected at Brent Cross and 80,000 at Lakeside on Saturday December 12, the London Mayor has warned shoppers to avoid public transport
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Britons were keen to get back onto the high street when lockdown ended but, according to retail analyst, Springboard, footfall is still 30 per cent down on the same period last year. The marketing director of Springboard, Diane Wehrle, said: ‘Part of this is timing – the proximity to Christmas means there is huge pent
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 3.6% between June and July. Clothing sales grew by 11.9% and people spent more money on petrol while online shopping fell by 7%. It said sales are now 3% higher than February before WHO declared a pandemic and the UK was placed in
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The #BlockFriday / #BoycottBlackFriday hashtags and rival #indieweek / #indiefriday campaign indicated that forces were rallying in opposition to what many see as the low point of the retail calendar, Black Friday (BF). Many stores ran promotions for the whole of the week and will continue them through the weekend and into Cyber Monday on
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South Manchester shop, The Curious Fox, has featured in a Christmas advert seen by more than six million Channel 4 viewers last weekend. Located on Chorlton’s Beech Road and described by owners Stewart Hutcheon and David Dodsworth as “unique and independent as you can get”, the shop boasts an eye-catching Christmas window decked with peacocks
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While much of the Western world was occupied with Remembrance Sunday and Veteran’s Day, a very different sort of event was happening online in the East. November 11 is the appointed date of ‘Single’s Day’, an annual shopping frenzy – indeed, the biggest shopping event on the planet – organised by ecommerce giant, Alibaba Group.
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