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Economy explores the wider economic forces influencing the UK retail industry. This section covers inflation, consumer spending, interest rates, labour market conditions, and policy developments affecting retail performance and profitability. Retail Sector’s Economy coverage provides expert analysis, data-driven insight, and commentary to help retail leaders, financial planners, and operational managers understand how macroeconomic trends are shaping demand, costs, and investment decisions across the sector.

Economy

Economy explores the wider economic forces influencing the UK retail industry. This section covers inflation, consumer spending, interest rates, labour market conditions, and policy developments affecting retail performance and profitability. Retail Sector’s Economy coverage provides expert analysis, data-driven insight, and commentary to help retail leaders, financial planners, and operational managers understand how macroeconomic trends are shaping demand, costs, and investment decisions across the sector.

Philip Green’s Arcadia records £10.9m loss

Topshop owner Arcadia Group – Philip Green’s retail empire – has recorded a loss…

Revealed: M&S names stores to shutter

M&S has announced the next tranche of UK stores proposed for closure or set to close as…

Topps Tiles see profits crack by almost 33%

Topps Tiles has seen a 32.6% drop in pre-tax profits, falling from £9.5m to £6.4m.

M&S could close 40 more stores

M&S could close 40 more stores according to reports, bringing the total closed stores to…

SME retailers see international payments double

Small and medium-sized retailers (SMEs) are responding to macroeconomic pressure in the UK…

Decline in retail vacancies slows job growth market

Job growth has slowed since the beginning of the year with the retail industry suffering the…

Retail consumer spending sees sharpest drop since 2012

Consumer spending has suffered its sharpest drop in six years, according to Visa’s latest…

Northern Ireland suffers most from UK retail struggles

Northern Ireland is suffering the worst of retail’s bad weather, showing a 7.3% drop in…

43,000 retailers in ‘financial distress’

Nearly 43,000 retailers ended the first quarter of the year in a state of ‘significant’…

Fall in shop prices marks fifth year of deflation

Shop prices fell by 1% in April marking the fifth year of deflation for retail prices.