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31 July 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.
...24 July 2020
Retail sales continued to rebound in June, as the reopening of non-essential shops mid-month released pent up demand.
The latest figures from the ONS bring the overall volume of retail sa...
21 July 2020
Four & 12 weeks to 11/12 July 2020
Grocery sales rose 10%, year-on-year, in the four weeks to 11 July, according to the latest figures from Nielsen, driven by a 115% rise in online sa...
16 July 2020
The latest labour market data from the ONS shows that job vacancies are at a record low at a time when payroll work continues to fall, with signs of inactivity rising. The latest data covers the pe...
16 July 2020
Visa’s UK overall expenditure fell by 6.5% year-on-year in June – a marked improvement on the 19.9% decline in May and the strongest performance since February. This was predominantly d...
14 July 2020
UK gross domestic product (GDP) fell 19.1% in the three months to May 2020, capturing the direct impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The services sector fell by 18.9%, production by 15.5% and const...
09 July 2020
Following the reopening of estate agents in England in mid-May, buyer enquiries jumped in June according to RICS’s latest survey among estate agents. But the outlook remains cautious as price...
03 July 2020
The fourth flash report by GfK on the impact of Covid-19 on consumer confidence (survey period 18th-26th June) showed tentative signs of an improvement, with the overall measure rising three points...
30 June 2020
Joint-largest contraction in GDP since Q3 1979
29 June 2020
Growth in secured lending remained weak in May, falling to 3.1% year-on-year from 3.3% in April. The monthly change in the additional amount households borrowed rose to £1.2bn, improving on A...
19 June 2020
The pressure of the coronavirus crisis on the retail sector somewhat eased in May according to the latest data from the ONS. Retail sales (value, non-seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) declined b...
19 June 2020
Visa's UK Consumer Spending Index also eased on record declines, with spending volumes down by 19.9% in May compared to 27.8% in April.
Face-to-face spending plummeted 33.3% in May as...
16 June 2020
The latest data from the ONS gives an indication of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the labour market. Although the UK unemployment rate was broadly unchanged in the three months to April,...
12 June 2020
UK gross domestic product (GDP) fell 10.4% in the three months to April 2020, capturing the direct impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The services sector fell by 9.9%, production by 9.5% and const...
05 June 2020
House prices continued to lose momentum following a strong start to the year, according to the latest data from Halifax.
House price growth eased marginally to 2.6% year-on-year, but decl...