Data news stories – Page 12
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Retail sales rise in February but online share falls back
Retail sales rose year on year in February but online continued on a downward trend as pandemic conditions eased, official data has shown.
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Data: Consumer confidence plummets as cost-of-living crunch bites
Consumer confidence dropped further in March as concerns over the cost of living grew, with 30-year-high levels of inflation and soaring fuel and food prices.
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Data: New payment regulation could cost unprepared retailers £3.65m a day
Customers must now prove their identity when shopping online as two-factor authentication becomes mandatory for ecommerce in the UK.
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Data: Primark and Amazon rank among most sustainable retailers in new consumer poll
Retail Week’s ground-breaking new report reveals the findings of exclusive research with 1,000 UK consumers on what sustainability means to them, how it is influencing their spending and how much they care about retailers driving the ESG agenda.
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Data: Online retail spending growth slows in February
Ecommerce sales grew at the slowest rate on record in February, facing tough comparables from last year’s figures when the UK was in lockdown.
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Data: Retail sales grow in February as Covid restrictions end
Retail sales increased in February as categories such as furniture, homewares, fashion and jewellery recorded strong growth over the month.
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Data: Footfall strengthens in February following removal of Covid restrictions
Footfall rose slightly in February compared to January as more workers returned to offices and Covid-19 restrictions came to an end.
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Data: Shop price inflation grows at fastest rate in over a decade
Retail prices increased to the highest rate recorded since November 2011 last month, accelerated by a rise in fresh food inflation in February.
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Data: Lidl leapfrogs Co-op as food inflation hits fastest rate in nearly a decade
Both Aldi and Lidl’s grocery market share surged in February as spiralling food inflation hit its fastest rate of growth since late 2013.
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Data: Four out of five consumers mull switching to discounters as cost of living soars
A new survey has found that four out of five UK consumers are considering switching to value or discount retailers due to the growing cost-of-living crunch.
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Data: Consumer confidence hits lowest point in a year as price rise fears grow
Consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest point since January 2021, one of the worst months of the pandemic.
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Data: Retail sales rebound in January driven by home improvement trends
Retail sales rose in January after a disappointing December.
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Data: Online retail grows at slowest rate on record in January
Ecommerce sales grew at the slowest rate on record in January as retailers battle the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and rising inflation.
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Data: Online sales to jump £20bn by 2025 amid shift to permanent home working
The shift to permanent home working sparked by the coronavirus pandemic is expected to add a further £20bn to online retail sales by 2025.
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Data: Retail sales grow in January despite rising cost of living
Retail sales rose in January despite ongoing consumer uncertainty due to rising inflation, as well as higher energy and transport prices.
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Data: Number of newly appointed retail CEOs falls to lowest level in 10 years
Only 18 new retail CEOs were appointed in the UK last year, marking a 54% drop from 2020.
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Data: Shop price inflation rises to highest level since December 2012
Shop price inflation soared in December, driven by an increase in non-food inflation, as the cost of living rises across the UK.
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Data: Grocery sales fall as shopping patterns normalise amidst looming price battle
Grocery sales in January fell as customers returned to pre-pandemic shopping patterns in the face of looming food price inflation.
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Number of vacant shops falls for first time since 2018
The overall store vacancy rate across the UK improved in the final quarter of 2021 as the number of vacant stores declined for the first time since the start of 2018.
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Data: Confidence drops as consumers brace for rising inflation
Concerns around the increase in fuel costs, as well as rising inflation and interest rates, led to a decrease in consumer confidence in January.