Although there was a “dazzling” final week of shopping being done by customers the week before Christmas and UK retail sales had risen by 2.2 per cent in December overall sales for traders had been fairly unimpressive and only appeared boosted compared to the previous years weak sales according to the British Retail Consortium [...]
A research study that has been commissioned by the price comparison site Kelkoo suggests that Saturday should be the this years busiest shopping day for High Street traders with £1.5 million being spent every minute in total.
Total expenditure for the day should top £1.05 billion according to the study, which had [...]
With the count down to Christmas Day quickly approaching looking for that last minute present may have been made a little easier by supermarket chain Asda as they have announced that they are cutting the prices of their own-brand HDTVs and digital recorders.
Asda retails the Luxor brand of electronic [...]
For millions of US citizens who have celebrated Thanksgiving day the natural next event is to visit the shops on Black Friday and retailers are hoping that this year this might be the start of a lift in their sales which have suffered heavily due to the global economic gloom.
A growing number of [...]
In a recent survey conducted by the marketing agency group Haygarth supermarket giants Tesco were voted the top of the retailers when shoppers were asked which own-brand label they preferred to buy.
The research survey revealed that of the people who took part 71 per cent said that they saw little to no [...]
Online orders for pizzas from the UK section of Domino’s business structure has now reached nearly half of their daily sales figures and emphasizes how significant the ecommerce development for this sector is providing substantial growth for the company.
In a management statement outlining revenue figures for Domino’s Pizza UK [...]
The redesigned and relaunched website of House of Fraser seems to have captured the imagination of internet shoppers as the company announced that their sales online had seen over 100 per cent growth in the first six months of it’s financial year to 30 July.
The privately-owned company said that it’s gross [...]
Despite a campaign being run to try and urge shoppers to stop using one-use only plastic carrier bags official figures recently released show that 6.4 billion had been used in 2010. This figure shows a rise when compared to the 6.1 billion that had been used in 2009 although previously to [...]
In a bid to try and tackle Scotland’s obesity crisis some of the largest food retailers have signed a pledge in agreement to help their customers eat more fresh vegetables and fruit.
One of the main concerns to be tackled by the retailers is to ensure that the cost of fruit and [...]
A statement has been issued by the chief executive of Haldanes Stores, Arthur Harris, in which he confirms that administrators have been called into the business and that the supermarket chain would be closing a majority of its stores. Mr Harris said that he had been devastated having to take the [...]
