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Navigating retail’s new normal: the rise of perpetual peaks

Navigating retail’s new normal: the rise of perpetual peaks

French consumer watchdog fines Shein €22m over retail breaches 

French consumer watchdog fines Shein €22m over retail breaches 

Footasylum partners with streetwear brand Trapstar

Footasylum partners with streetwear brand Trapstar

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Retail Sales

This coverage analyses UK retail sales performance, highlighting monthly figures, sector breakdowns, seasonal trends, and consumer spending patterns. Reporting examines how economic conditions, promotions, and market dynamics influence sales outcomes across categories, providing retail managers and executives with actionable insights into trading conditions and customer demand.

Retail Sales

This coverage analyses UK retail sales performance, highlighting monthly figures, sector breakdowns, seasonal trends, and consumer spending patterns. Reporting examines how economic conditions, promotions, and market dynamics influence sales outcomes across categories, providing retail managers and executives with actionable insights into trading conditions and customer demand.

UK retail sales rise 3.6% in March as Easter boosts food spending

Growth in food and drink sectors offset sluggish non-food performance while Middle East…

Mothercare sales fall 22% amid Middle East conflict

Despite the overall decline, Mothercare reported that like-for-like retail sales were…

Keeping retail environments clean during busy trading periods

April marks one of the first major trading peaks of the retail calendar. Encouragingly,…

Retail sales volumes rise 0.7% in three months to February

Online growth and art sales drive quarterly increase despite monthly dip in supermarket and…

Betting on bricks: behind Seasalt’s expansion in cautious times

Seasalt plans to open 10 new stores a year despite rising costs and fragile consumer…

UK retail sales growth slows to 1.1% in February

Monthly performance falls below 12-month average as wet weather and weak consumer confidence…

Beauty Bay’s future in a post-Sephora UK market

Administration at the once-disruptive online retailer underscores how the UK beauty market…

Retail sales volumes rise 1.8% in January

Online spending values rose by 1.3% in January 2026, a 14.7% increase compared with the same…

Booker Group restructures retail leadership team

These changes follow a period of transition for the wholesaler as it seeks to streamline its…

UK retail sales see 2.7% boost in January after ‘drab’ December

Growth in food and non-food sectors outpaced 12-month average despite ongoing concerns…