high street

Shoppers shun high street for online as January sees strongest growth since 2013

Online retail delivery order volumes were up 20.6 percent year-on-year in January, according to the latest data from the IMRG…

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Retail footfall takes a hit with Scotland showing sharpest decline

Footfall in January decreased by 1.6% year-on-year, showing a deeper decrease than the rate seen for January 2017, according to…

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New shopping platform helps pet stores

A start-up business launched to get back into high street shops has now opened its doors to London-based pet stores.…

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High street sees sharpest footfall decline in four years

New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard show footfall in the month of December suffered its sharpest…

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How safe is your job?

Despite a three percent drop in employment, Pet Gazette discovers that the retail sector is still going strong “The pace…

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Independent High Street retailers boom while national chains fall

Data released recently by The Local Data Company (LDC) and British Independent Retailers Association (bira) shows that traditional independent shops…

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Number of independent retailers rises

Data released by LDC and British Independent Retailers Association (bira) has shown that traditional independent retailers opened more shops than were…

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Great British High Street competition open for entries

High streets minister Marcus Jones has called on communities across the country to enter their villages, towns and cities into…

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Sunday trading law proposals defeated

Following the failure of the government’s proposals for Sunday trading hours to be relaxed, experts feel it is now time…

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Retail business running costs up £20bn since 2006

A British Retail Consortium (BRC) commissioned study by Oxford Economics has revealed that retailers’ operating costs have increased by a…

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