Sausage Wars may be capturing the headlines, but that’s not the only urgent deadline facing UK-EU negotiators. The extension to the NI Protocol grace period expected to be announced this week must include parcels, urges ParcelHero. In March, the UK government announced it was unilaterally extending the grace period on parcels and home deliveries to […]
After encouraging signs in July of a possible bounce back to positive growth, online retail sales failed to make up much ground in August – slowing their fall only slightly to -9.3% year-on-year (YoY). That is according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, which tracks the online sales performance of over 200 retailers. […]
Now that we have passed the period from 2020 that was under strict lockdown conditions, this analysis will return to primarily reporting the sales results on a year-on-year basis. However, for certain measures a two-year comparison remains useful, which will be clearly signposted below. Covering the four weeks 1 – 28 August 2021 On a […]
The festive season may be months away, but major retailers usually start stocking up for Christmas in September. This year, however, the international delivery expert ParcelHero says the government’s Brexit hubris means it is refusing to allow EU-based drivers to return and end Britain’s HGV driver shortage. ParcelHero’s head of consumer research, David Jinks M.I.L.T., […]
According to Savills, the European retail sector is increasingly looking more attractive to opportunistic investors, based on recent developments in the UK that tend to forecast real estate developments in wider Europe. In a world where high yields are increasingly hard to find, whether in real estate or other sectors, good UK shopping centres where […]
Covering the four weeks 01 August – 28 August 2021 2020 was a turbulent year in which much of retail bounced between being open and closed, impacting footfall significantly. To make meaningful comparisons to changes in footfall, all 2021 figures are compared with 2019 (pre-pandemic). This means our 2021 figures are now year-on-two-years (Yo2Y), rather […]
Period Covered: 02 – 06 August 2021 Shop Price deflation eased to 0.8% year-on-year in August compared to July’s decrease of 1.2%. This is a slower rate of decline than the 12- and 6-month average price decreases of 1.5% and 1.2%, respectively. Non-food deflation slowed to 1.2% in August, compared to a fall of 1.8% […]
Santander UK is supporting gemstone jewellery, craft retailer and TV shopping broadcaster Gemporia Partnership with a funding package worth more than £30m. Included in the funding package is a five-year £25m term loan that supports repayment of existing facilities following the sale of Gemporia Partnership to an Employee Ownership Trust in 2017. The funding enables […]
Retail sales grew at the sharpest pace since December 2014 in the year to August, while orders growth hit a survey record high, according to the latest CBI quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. Sales were also viewed as above average for the time of year, to the greatest extent since September 2015. The survey of 104 […]
The home delivery expert ParcelHero says it warned the government as early as 9 July that ‘Freedom Day’ plans to relax Covid measures would backfire. Now the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) retail sales figures reveal a shocking -2.5% decrease in the amount of goods sold during the month. A growth in sales of […]
