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Number of retail employees falls despite store increase

The number of UK workers employed by retail firms fell by over 3,000 in recent months despite an increase in the number of stores, a new study says. The cut was mainly in non-food retailers, among full and part-time...

Mobile searches ‘driving’ online retail boom

Mobile retail searches are the driving force behind the current boom in online sales of goods for parcel delivery, new figures have revealed.According to the latest report from the British Retail Consortium and Google, total retail search volumes in...

Chain retailers ‘closing 20 stores a day’

The gravity of the high street downturn is spelled out in new research published on Friday which shows UK retail chains have been closing stores this year at a rate of about 20 a day.The alarming statistic comes as...

UK retail jobs growth falters

The British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Bond Pearce Retail Employment Monitor Q4 2010 has reported that in the last quarter of 2010, there was the equivalent of 3,900 more full-time jobs in UK retail than the same quarter a year earlier,...

Interest rate held at five per cent

The Bank of England has held the interest rate at five per cent for the fifth month running despite increasing fears of an imminent recession.The British Retail Consortium said that although it agrees with today's decision, the bank should...
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