Retail Economics provide regular insights on UK retailing. Browse our extensive archive for insights on topics such as: Brexit, online retail developments, ONS Consumer Price Index, the outlook for UK retail, consumer sentiments and much more…
23 October 2020
Retail sales (value, non-seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) increased for a fourth consecutive month in September, up by 5.8% year-on-year according to the latest ONS data.
Lifestyle ch...
23 October 2020
22 October 2020
As all non-essential stores close across the UK, Retail Economics takes a look beyond the closures and rounds-up how retailers have been responding to the coronavirus in the timeline below.
...13 October 2020
The latest ONS labour market data shows little change in the number of PAYE employees on the previous month, while the unemployment rate and level of redundancies increased.
It should be...
09 October 2020
Monthly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by 2.1% in August, following July’s rise of 6.4% and a 9.1% uplift in June. GDP is still 9.2% lower than the level seen before the full impact of the...
09 October 2020
The residential housing market continues to show strength following the reopening of estate agents earlier in the year, with buyer enquiries, new listings and agreed sales remaining positive accord...
30 September 2020
GDP records its largest contraction on record
29 September 2020
Annual growth in secured lending stabilised in August, rising by 2.9% year-on-year for the second consecutive month. The monthly change in the additional amount households borrowed totalled £...
18 September 2020
Retail remained in growth in August, with overall retail sales (value, non-seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) increasing by 4.1% year-on-year according to the latest ONS data. This follows a 2.9%...
18 September 2020
Spending continued to recover in August as restrictions eased, with overall expenditure rising by by 4.7% year-on-year in the month according to Visa’s consumer sending index. This marked the...
15 September 2020
The latest ONS labour market data shows a drop in the number of PAYE employees as the furlough scheme begins to unwind, with an increase in unemployment disproportionately hitting young people
...15 September 2020
Four & 12 weeks to 5/6 September 2020
Grocery sales rose 5.3%, year-on-year, in the four weeks to 5 September, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. Despite...
11 September 2020
UK gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 7.6% in the three months to July 2020, with all main sectors of the economy recording a decline. Indeed, the services sector fell by 8.1%, production by 3.5%...
10 September 2020
The latest RICS Residential Market Survey shows a continued post-lockdown rebound in the housing market, although the outlook for the year ahead remains muted as the market anticipates the impact o...
07 September 2020
The housing market has continued to pick up since estate agents reopened in mid-May – good news for home-related retailers, but there’s a rocky road ahead as the economic recovery is se...