It’s that time of year again. Furniture ads start telling us we can take delivery by Christmas, every evening in the suburbs is punctuated by idiots setting off fireworks, and you start to think you must visit Selfridges’ Christmas shop rather than tutting and mumbling “how ridiculous”. Plus we get deluged with reports about how…
You only live once. That’s the attitude of a many young adults and it means they’d rather spend than save, a new survey says. Yes, it’s those millennials again – the current favourite generation to be surveyed, scrutinised and analysed – and this study suggests they’re worried about their future but not necessarily worried enough…
Two countries, two groups of consumers, two sets of figures. One similar result. Whether it’s Brexit blues or election uncertainty, it seems consumers in the UK and US just aren’t in a spending mood at the moment. At least they’re not in the mood to buy certain things.
Pinning down the after-effects of the Brexit vote in the UK is turning out to be quite hard. Despite pre-referendum warnings of disaster or promises of a new, golden age for Britain, we sometimes forget that we’re still in the EU and will be for a good few years yet. So if the sky is…
Some good news that suggests a healthy chunk of shoppers are still willing to spend post-Brexit vote. Retail marketing agency Live & Breathe has found that despite consumer confidence being low, most UK shoppers don’t have any immediate plans to change their spending (including Christmas 2016).
More figures about the state of UK retailing in June. More to get depressed about. Springboard has just released its June footfall figures and they show overall visitor traffic falling 2.8%. In detail, that meant a 3.7% drop to high streets, a 1% fall to retail parks and a 2.3% drop at shopping centres.
Asos may be powering ahead despite the Brexit vote, as its latest sales figures showed today. But it doesn’t look like many of its UK fashion retail peers are, or does it? No, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). That said, it’s still early days and contradictory figures seem to be emerging too with…
It’s weird in the UK at the moment. You can almost reach out and touch the overall feeling of doom and gloom with the only people who seem to be cheerful being a few Brexiteers (like Andrea Leadsom with that painted-on perma-grin of hers). But businesses and consumers aren’t convinced. Pessimists are being criticised by…
The UK fashion sector has a whole shopping cart of problems ahead of it and Brexit is only one of them. But it has opportunities too and social media is one of them. New data from Kantar Worldpanel shows the market falling slightly (by 0.1%) in the 52 weeks to June 5.
There’s been a lot of confusing data about UK retail sales in May but now the official figures are out and what do they show? Retail was in a good place in May and clothing retail was the reason. Shock, Horror. Really? We’re continuously told that retail is suffering at the moment and clothing retail…
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