Responding to the latest ONS Retail Sales Index figures, which showed a 3.7% year-on-year increase in overall sales (non-seasonally adjusted retail sales excluding fuel: J3L2), Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: “The fifth consecutive month of rising sales is a testament to the perseverance and innovation of retailers who continue to […]
Shoppers may be flooding back to high streets and shopping centres, but online sales are still booming. According to the home delivery expert ParcelHero, our shopping habits post-Covid will result in e-commerce levelling out at around 25% of all retail sales. That means that UK internet sales will be worth around £12.8bn annually. ParcelHero’s head […]
After recording the steepest drops in the history of the Index for two months in a row, the fall in online retail sales appears to be slowing – down just -9.6% year-on-year (YoY) in July. That is according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, which tracks the online sales performance of over 200 […]
Covering the four weeks 4 – 31 July 2021 On a Total basis, sales increased by 6.4% in July, against a growth of 3.2% in July 2020. This is below the 3-month average growth of 14.7% and the 12-month average growth of 10.4%. On a 2-year basis, Total retail sales grew by 9.1%. UK retail […]
Covering the four weeks 04 July – 31 July 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 […]
In the second quarter of 2021, the overall GB vacancy rate increased to 14.5%, from 14.1% in Q1. It was 2.1 percentage points higher than in the same point in 2020. It is now over three years of increasing vacancy rates, from Q1 2018. All locations saw an increase in vacancies in Q2, with Shopping […]
Period Covered: 01 – 07 July 2021 Shop Price deflation accelerated to 1.2% year-on-year in July compared to June’s decrease of 0.7%. This is a slower rate of decline than the 12- and 6-month average price decreases of 1.6% and 1.4%, respectively. Non-food deflation accelerated to 1.8% in July, compared to a fall of 1.0% […]
Retail sales volumes rose 0.5% between May and June 2021. Food store volumes rose 4.2% compared to May, as spending around the Euros boosted trade. Sales of clothing fell by 4.8% and sales in household goods stores was down 10.9%. Retail sales volumes were 12.2% higher in the three months to the end of June […]
More than two thirds (66.84%) of the British public say this year’s Christmas will be more emotional or important than it was before the pandemic, with almost half (49.4%) planning to spend more on gifts and celebrating as a result. That’s according to a new survey on 2021 holiday shopping behaviours from Quantum Metric, the […]
Faced with a reopened high street, further easing of lockdown and a comparative twelve-year ecommerce high in 2020, online retail sales continued to fall to record-breaking lows in June, down -14.1% 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. The […]
