Data

Total Till sales at UK supermarkets slowed (+5.3%) in the last four weeks ending 24th February 2024, according to new data released today by NIQ. This is a slight slowdown compared...

The UK’s local shops recorded a shocking 5.6million incidents of shop theft over the last year, smashing the previous record of 1.1m incidents recorded in 2023. The Association of Convenience...

New Consumer Spend data from Barclays’ annual contactless trends report has revealed that 2023 was another record-breaking year for ‘touch and pay’, further cementing it as the UK’s most popular...

Whilst the predicted easing of interest rates and inflationary pressure later this year will help the investment and development of new supermarkets, significantly raised construction costs and rental growth may...

 Bazaarvoice, Inc., the leading provider of full-funnel authentic user-generated content (UGC) solutions, has unveiled its biannual Shopper Preference Report, capturing insights from 2,008 UK consumers.  The report reveals that the...

Half of retail businesses in the UK are losing customers due to a poor delivery experience according to data from sustainable delivery company, Zedify. The data, based on 250 respondents...

February was saved by the school half-term holiday which contributed to an overall rise in footfall of +8.3% from the month before across all UK retail destinations. This was largely...

With the arrival of spring just around the corner and its official commencement on March 20th, anticipation fills the air as everyone eagerly awaits for the season's hottest trends. There’s...

Assumptions about Generation Alpha (6-16-year-olds) may need to be upended as research finds these digital natives are far from digitally exclusive, with more enjoying the experience of shopping in-store (69%) than...

As January sales give way to February returns, new research shows fashion items are topping the refunds list in the UK, with nearly 40% of Brits requesting refunds or disputing...

UK SMEs are feeling increasingly confident about the future of their businesses, according to the ‘Alibaba.com B2B Sentiment Survey’ released today by Alibaba.com, a leading platform for global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce....

Grocery price inflation has fallen to 5.3%, marking the lowest rate since March 2022 and a decrease of 1.5 percentage points from January, according to the leading marketing data and...

Over 11.2 billion paper receipts are printed in the UK every year and the majority of these are non-recyclable - a real bane to both the retail industry and shoppers...

With supermarkets including Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, M&S and Coop following Tesco’s lead, launching discounted prices exclusively for loyalty scheme members, the popularity of these programmes has risen among price-conscious shoppers, according...

The majority of UK customers don’t even realise they are vulnerable, states NICE – the leading global AI customer service technology provider – in its new Vulnerable Customer Report. The study has found that only...

A recent study has highlighted a significant surge in Brits’ financial consciousness, at a time when financial trends such as ‘loud budgeting’ and ‘girl maths’ are becoming increasingly mainstream in...

New data from the leading eCommerce provider Visualsoft, shows that revenue increased for retailers in the run up to Valentine’s Day, but that brands and stores are having to work harder...

Place Informatics, the leading provider of footfall and location visitor behaviour data monitoring in the UK, has published a national visitor data report to give an overview of how footfall...

Newly launched research shows that 70% of shoppers would be more likely to buy egg-based food products, such as quiche or egg sandwiches, that display the British Lion mark. Almost...

Food continues to be the commodity most at risk of theft in the global supply chain and now accounts for a third of all hijacking incidents – up 29% on 2022. Amidst...