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How Taylor Swift may have helped cancel Christmas for retail

by Robert Carruthers
06 Aug 2024

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Age gulf opens up in UK consumers’ disposable incomes

by Robert Carruthers
01 Mar 2024

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Did January’s British retail bounce back really ever happen?

by Robert Carruthers
20 Feb 2024

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Summer upturn on cards after spring flash crash?

by Robert Carruthers
05 Feb 2024

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Retail squeeze to tighten as spending power shifts away from young middle class families

by Robert Carruthers
21 Feb 2023

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Heating and eating costs nix Golden Quarter spend

by Robert Carruthers
14 Feb 2023

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Fashion lifts retail while online plunges

by Robert Carruthers
16 Dec 2022

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Beware the new normal for consumers because it will be a lot like the old one

by Robert Carruthers
28 Mar 2022

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Fashion back in positive territory for first time as consumers’ mood lifts

by Robert Carruthers
19 Nov 2021

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Supply chain crisis hits home in September

by Robert Carruthers
22 Oct 2021

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Home sales tail off as housing market boom ends and online slows

by Robert Carruthers
23 Jul 2021

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British shoppers resign themselves to a staycation summer

by Robert Carruthers
18 Jun 2021

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April retail figures show UK consumers still focused on the home

by Robert Carruthers
21 May 2021

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What if the coiled spring of UK retail spending isn’t coiled?

by Robert Carruthers
23 Apr 2021

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Retail may not get quite the post Covid bounce back it is expecting

by Robert Carruthers
01 Mar 2021

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Fashion the retail victim again as online gallops ahead

by Robert Carruthers
18 Dec 2020

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August sees cracks starting to show in retail V

by Robert Carruthers
01 Oct 2020

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Retail as a whole is growing, so why are physical stores in a slump?

by Robert Carruthers
01 Oct 2020

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Why July retail mini boom may be as good as it gets

by Robert Carruthers
28 Aug 2020

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Retail recovery is a strange kind of V

by Robert Carruthers
24 Jul 2020

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Savings glut waiting for retailers to tap into

by Robert Carruthers
28 May 2020

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UK consumers saved in April and now it is time for retailers to cash in

by Robert Carruthers
28 May 2020

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Retail as a whole is growing, so why are physical stores in a slump?

by Robert Carruthers
28 May 2020

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Retailers can tap into households’ £83bn ‘corona cash’ savings if they adapt fast

by Robert Carruthers
11 May 2020

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This is what April’s consumer horror show is likely to look like

by Robert Carruthers
28 Apr 2020

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March figures just the start of the tsunami hitting UK consumer businesses

by Robert Carruthers
27 Apr 2020

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Restaurants, pubs and hotels still took the lion’s share of growth in January

by Robert Carruthers
24 Feb 2020

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Online landed a Black Friday knockout blow on physical retail

by Robert Carruthers
22 Jan 2020

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Election nerves and extra saving tarnished retail’s ‘golden quarter’

by Robert Carruthers
08 Jan 2020

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Online plunges into decline in November as consumer spending stagnates

by Robert Carruthers
23 Dec 2019

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Saving grows as October chill and early rugby kick-offs keep consumers at home

by Robert Carruthers
15 Nov 2019

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September’s online slowdown poses extra danger for Christmas trading

by Robert Carruthers
23 Oct 2019

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Hot, quite worried and slightly drunk: what UK consumers did with their money in August

by Robert Carruthers
20 Sep 2019

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Slowing online spend is hitting retail growth: could ‘Brexit jitters’ finally be happening?

by Robert Carruthers
18 Jul 2019

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Arcadia faces more than just ‘hard work’ in turning round its brands: it’s in a strategic vice

by Robert Carruthers
13 Jun 2019

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What’s killing the department stores isn’t just the shift online

by Robert Carruthers
11 May 2019

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Why Christmas 2018 maybe wasn’t so bad for retail after all

by Robert Carruthers
09 Jan 2019

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Four reasons why Christmas 2018 maybe wasn’t so bad for retail after all

by Robert Carruthers
09 Jan 2019

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What’s Really Behind October’s Retail Slowdown

by Robert Carruthers
16 Nov 2018

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The shift begins: households save a bit more, borrow a bit less

by Robert Carruthers
01 Oct 2018

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Are UK consumers really holding back because of ‘weak sentiment’?

by Robert Carruthers
27 Sep 2018

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Why department stores are in deep trouble, in one chart

by Robert Carruthers
20 Aug 2018

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Experience spending rise led by children of the 60s

by Robert Carruthers
14 Aug 2018

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Why Britain’s ‘late boomers’ are the ones sustaining UK spending growth

by Robert Carruthers
11 Jul 2018

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UK Millennials: think global, act local was never truer

by Robert Carruthers
08 Jun 2018

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Why M&S’s move to re-target family age consumers is the toughest task possible

by Robert Carruthers
23 May 2018

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UK households see first quarter net income jump

by Robert Carruthers
19 May 2018

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Household income squeeze ‘about to end’? Actually it happened last year

by Robert Carruthers
18 Apr 2018

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Grocery polarisation that may be driving Tesco’s budget chain plan

by Robert Carruthers
12 Feb 2018

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Could more buoyant consumers be a sign the worst is over?

by Robert Carruthers
31 Jan 2018

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‘Experience’ spending isn’t the problem for under-50s: it’s basic living costs

by Robert Carruthers
04 Jan 2018

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Why November’s low consumer ‘optimism’ points to the new normal for retail

by Robert Carruthers
30 Nov 2017

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Sorry retailers, but your Xmas TV ad family obsession doesn’t ‘bear’ scrutiny

by Robert Carruthers
10 Nov 2017

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Rising interest rates may actually be good news for (older) consumers

by Robert Carruthers
02 Nov 2017

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Can malls really rely on millennials’ spend on leisure and eating out?

by Robert Carruthers
27 Oct 2017

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The UK household squeeze may already be over, but a bumper Christmas doesn’t look likely

by Robert Carruthers
18 Oct 2017

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Don’t bother with consumer ‘optimism’ as a guide to the future – it simply tells us what’s happening now

by Robert Carruthers
01 Jul 2017

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The sudden squeeze on 30-49s that may have cost the Tories the election

by Robert Carruthers
20 Jun 2017

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Joules sparkles as middle-class families de-risk their wardrobes

by Robert Carruthers
07 Jun 2017

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Make way Millennials – here come the ‘Platinum Pensioners’

by Robert Carruthers
21 May 2017

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‘Platinum Pensioners’ splash out with rock star lifestyle

by Robert Carruthers
21 May 2017

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Consumer finances set to escape recent hammering from tax payments?

by Robert Carruthers
12 May 2017

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Where should M&S target its new online food operation?

by Robert Carruthers
03 May 2017

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Millennials aren’t leading the ‘post-stuff’ transition – it’s just they’ve got no money

by Robert Carruthers
06 Apr 2017

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Job market steady and strong, but inflation continues to build

by Robert Carruthers
15 Feb 2017

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Could 2017 turn out to be less of a ‘black run’ slowdown for retailers?

by Robert Carruthers
19 Jan 2017

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Next: The worrying decline of the 30-49s

by Robert Carruthers
04 Jan 2017

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Watch the jobs market figures to see how retail will perform in 2017

by Robert Carruthers
03 Jan 2017

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How consumer optimism drives the volume not the value of what we spend

by Robert Carruthers
30 Nov 2016

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Spending by older households rockets as incomes boom

by Robert Carruthers
17 Nov 2016

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A retail boom based on borrowing? No, it’s just consumers catching up.

by Robert Carruthers
17 Nov 2016

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M&S’s clothing challenge: a heat map that’s too hot to handle

by Robert Carruthers
09 Nov 2016

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Why clothing will get clobbered in the Brexit price fight

by Robert Carruthers
19 Oct 2016

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Tesco turnaround, but bad news for Asda

by Robert Carruthers
04 Oct 2016

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