LONDON, 2014-12-4 — /EPR Retail News/ — Food reported annual deflation for the first time since the series began in December 2006, falling 0.2% in November.
Both the fresh and ambient food categories reported annual deflation, falling 0.3% and 0.2% respectively.
Non-food deflation slowed marginally to 2.9% in November from 3.1% in October.
Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium…
LONDON, 2014-11-11— /EPR Retail News/ — UK retail sales were flat, at 0.0%, on a like-for-like basis from October 2013, when they had increased 0.8% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 1.4%, against a 2.6% rise in October 2013. This was an improvement on the previous month and beat the…
LONDON, 2014-10-27— /EPR Retail News/ — Total search volumes for home and garden grew by 15% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Search volumes on smartphones outpaced search volumes on tablets, with growth of 41% compared with growth on tablets of 22%.
BRC Director General, Helen Dickinson, said: "This…
The equivalent number of full-time jobs fell by 1.3% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with the same period last year.
LONDON, 2014-10-24— /EPR Retail News/ — In the third quarter of 2014, the number of outlets rose by 2.9%. Non-food retailers contributed marginally to the overall increase, the first time for at least two…
LONDON, 2014-10-10— /EPR Retail News/ — Overall shop prices reported deflation for the seventeenth consecutive month, accelerating to 1.8% in September from 1.6% in August.
Food inflation remained at 0.3% in September – equalling the lowest ever recorded.
Fresh food inflation was flat for September; this is the first month since Feb 2010 that the category hasn't…
LONDON, 2014-9-15— /EPR Retail News/ — Footfall in August was 1.1% down on a year ago, down on the 0.6% fall in July and below the three-month average of a 0.8% decline.
Out-of-Town reported the only rise, 2.9% higher than a year ago, while footfall in shopping centers was down 1.1% on the previous year
Footfall on the…