All Data articles – Page 3
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DataHow to understand the December drop in retail sales
The story many were telling about the performance of the retail sector over Christmas got a bit complicated last week as the ONS released figures suggesting sales volumes were down month-on-month
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DataUK festive spending on buy now, pay later hit a record this year
One of the key figures coming out of the record UK online Christmas spending released earlier this week by Adobe Analytics was that 13.9% or £3.6bn of payments came through buy now, pay later providers
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DataRanking: The best retailers for customer satisfaction
The January edition of the UK Customer Satisfaction Index showcases which organisations consumers enjoy interacting with the most.
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DataGolden quarter footfall and what it means – in charts
December’s footfall numbers did not provide the hope that retailers were looking for ahead of 2025.
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DataData: The categories shoppers plan to splurge and save on in 2025
Eating out and fashion are the leading categories for prioritising spending and making cuts this year, revealing the extent of polarisation in the market, according to Retail Week’s latest report.
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DataThe Christmas trading 2024 retail league table
Find out how retailers fared during the critical 2024/25 Christmas trading period with our league table benchmarking sales performance across the industry.
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DataWinners and losers: Which retail categories enjoyed a bumper year and which ones struggled?
To find out which sectors are feeling very merry going into the new year, and which had a tougher time in 2024, we asked retail data experts CACI to track how spend has shifted this year
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DataData: How 1,000 UK shoppers will spend their money next year
A massive 73% of consumers are “worried” about the high cost of living and 37% are reducing their spending as a result, Retail Week’s new report reveals.
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DataRanking: The 50 most popular retail websites on Black Friday
Payday weekend propelled Black Friday into a bumper shopping weekend for Brits but which retailers lured in the most shoppers? Thanks to exclusive data compiled by Similarweb for Retail Week, we can reveal the victors of the promotional bonanza
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DataTwo-fifths of frontline staff believe retail stores won’t exist by 2029
Alarming new data from the Talking Shop report reveals growing concerns among store workers that the physical store will be entirely subsumed by ecommerce in the coming years
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DataRapid delivery: is it still all to play for?
Thanks to data collected exclusively for Retail Week by CACI, we can reveal the picture of spend in the rapid delivery market, how Getir managed to crash out of a service that’s in such high demand and the demographic groups it attracted that are now up for grabs.
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DataConsumer research: retailers should get set for a bumper Black Friday and bright Christmas
New consumer data from YouGov shows that customers are getting back into the Christmas spirit in 2024.
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DataData: 500 UK store staff on what it’s really like working retail’s frontline
Talking Shop is back for 2024 featuring fresh interviews with full-time and part-time store staff on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing them in their roles
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DataRanking: The top 25 fastest-growing retailers show how we shop the ‘new normal’
Thanks to the Interpath Retail Index 2024, Retail Week can reveal the top 25 fastest-growing retailers and what they tell us about how shoppers behave in the ‘new normal’. To read the full report and see the full list of fastest-growing retailers which goes up to 100, click here.
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DataWhat shoppers really think about retail’s use of AI
Interviews with 1,000 consumers for Retail Week’s new report indicate whether AI is incentivising spending and how shoppers want to interact with the technology
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DataRanking: The UK’s biggest fashion retailers and where they’ll be in three years
Thanks to exclusive data from Retail Week’s sister brand Retail Navigator by Lumina Intelligence, we can reveal how the landscape for fashion retail is going to change over the next few years – and which brands are set to dominate our high streets and wardrobes.
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DataData: Shopper verdict on the top five retailers and brands for online CX
One thousand UK consumers were asked, with no prompts, to share the retailer or brand that had offered them the best digital shopping experience this past year. We take a look at shoppers’ top five with the full list revealed in Retail Week’s new report
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DataRanking: The most sustainable retailers according to shoppers
New data collected by Lumina Intelligence exclusively for Retail Week shows customers believe Marks & Spencer and Tesco are the most sustainable retailers.
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DataConvenience on the up, chemists shuttered – the factors affecting store openings and closures
Net store closures of chain outlets in the UK reached 12.5 a day in the first half of 2024, averaging 38 closures and 25.5 openings per day according to new data from PwC and Green Street. Retail Week delves into the data to explore the factors impacting openings and closures
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DataRanking: The UK retailers with the highest global sales
Thanks to data collected by our sister brand Retail Navigator by Lumina Intelligence, Retail Week can reveal the UK retailers with the highest international sales, and how they stack up against one another.