- Warm weather and panic fuel buying helped push up retail sales volumes by 3.3 per cent year-on-year in March, the Office for National Statistics has said today.Inflation helped retail sales to rise 5.7 per cent in value compared to last year accor...

- Official government figures show retail sales grew 3.2 per cent in value and one per cent in volume year-on-year during February, but month-on-month volumes dropped further than expected.The Office for National Statistics published a report today ...

- Total UK retail sales declined one per cent year-on-year during April as heavy rain disrupted trading across the country, new figures reveal.The latest Retail Sales Monitor from lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and audit, tax & advi...

- Retail sales rebounded from an underlying drop in February to rise year-on-year in March, according to new research, however the performance was helped by very weak comparatives from last year.New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) &...

- Price inflation for shopping items fell back last month as retailers continued to sacrifice margins to boost sales, new research released today shows.Lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and research firm Nielsen found that overall shop...

- The cost of shopping goods continued to rise last month and at an increased rate from February, the latest shop price inflation data has revealed today.Inflation had been steadily falling since last autumn but during March overall shop prices grew...

- While wider unemployment in the UK continues to stay worryingly high, the retail sector has helped plug the gap recently by adding an extra 3,011 full-time jobs to the economy in the first quarter of 2012.According to the latest British Retail Con...

- The number of UK workers holding full-time jobs in the retail industry grew fractionally during the final quarter of 2011 despite difficult trading conditions, new figures published today show.Industry representative group the British Retail Conso...

- The UKs largest grocers were out-performed by lower & higher priced competitors over recent weeks, new research out today shows.According to research firm Kantar Worldpanel, market leader Tesco saw its share of the grocery sector drop in the 12 we...

- The UK’s leading retailer Tesco continues to grow food sales slower than the overall grocery market and has lost ground to its closest competitor, according to the latest data.Figures from research firm Kantar Worldpanel show that the second large...

- UK consumers spent £5.8 billion online last month with sales via mobile soaring an incredible 254 per cent year-on-year, according to new research released todayIMRG & Capgemini’s latest e-Retail Sales Index shows that overall online sales grew 14...

- Online spending rose by ten per cent year-on-year during February, new figures show, however this is only half of the growth seen during the same month last year.During the month shoppers spent £5.4 billion online in the UK with Valentine’s Day pr...

- Cold & wet weather dampened high street fashion sales during April, according to new research, but other non-food sectors performed strongly during the month.Accountancy & business services firm BDO’s latest High Street Sales Tracker shows that ov...

- New figures released today show that consumer confidence remained at the same level during April as it had in March, as UK shoppers continued to worry about the economy and their personal finances.Research firm GfK found in its latest monthly Cons...

- A watering down of the proposed levy on supermarkets announced yesterday by the Scottish government has been met with derision by business leaders.Finance Secretary for the devolved Scottish Government John Swinney confirmed in parliament that the...

- Retail sales growth in Scotland last month was the weakest seen in any December since at least 1999, new findings published today reveal.Sales in the country were up just 1.6 per cent in total and a tiny 0.4 per cent on a like-for-like (LFL) basis...