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Simply Be and JD Williams owner warns of ‘tough’ retail environment

The owner of fashion chains JD Williams and Simply Be said more cautious consumer spending and shrinking budgets have led to a tough retail environment – as it revealed its profits have almost halved. N Brown Group, which describes itself as an ...

06 Oct 2022 at 11:11

Scotland

Click and collect worth more than £2.5bn to Scottish economy, report finds

Click and collect shopping will be worth more than £2.5 billion in Scotland this year, a report has found. The figure represents around 38.4% of the total retail income in Scotland, the What’s In Store For Retail? report by Barclays Corporate ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Catalogue Easylife fined £1.48m for using personal details to sell health items

Catalogue retailer Easylife has been fined £1.48 million for using customers’ personal details to try and sell them health products without consent. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined Easylife £1.35 million for using the ...

06 Oct 2022 at 10:45

How everyday items have risen in price in the past 12 months

Here are some examples of how the cost of everyday goods and services have risen in the past year. The figures are based on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation and have been published by the Office for National ...

17 Aug 2022 at 10:32

Soaring inflation pressures Bank to further hike interest rates, economists say

New inflation figures are likely to ramp up pressure on the Bank of England to once again rapidly hike interest rates when its decision-makers next meet, several experts have said. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy ...

17 Aug 2022 at 11:53

Poorest families continue to be hardest hit by inflation, say experts

Poorer families will continue to be hardest hit by rising inflation as they spend more of their income on increasingly expensive food, analysis of new official data shows. The Resolution Foundation said that while ...

17 Aug 2022 at 11:26

National News

Consumer prices rose 9.1% in the year to July

Consumer prices rose by 9.1% in the year to July, as inflation remains at its highest level in almost four decades. The latest figures published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show inflation is at the ...

14 Aug 2022 at 09:33

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EY Future Consumer Index predicts belt tightening is the latest trend

Consumers globally are preparing to hunker down for a long financial squeeze, as the increasing cost of living and geopolitical uncertainties push them to seek financial control amid low economic confidence, ...

17 Aug 2022 at 13:33

Forty-five million Britons to be plunged into fuel poverty in winter – study

An estimated 45 million Britons will be forced into fuel poverty and struggle to pay energy bills this winter, new research has found. Two-thirds of all UK households – or 18 million families – will be ...

18 Aug 2022 at 13:16

Double-digit inflation leaves families ‘worried sick’ over cost of living

The cost-of-living crisis was catapulted further up the agenda in the Conservative leadership election as new figures showed that under-pressure households faced a worse-than-expected hit in July. ...

17 Aug 2022 at 17:36

Pressure on households to be laid bare as inflation expected to hit 10%

The rapidly increasing financial pressure on millions of families across the UK will be laid out on Wednesday as experts predict the biggest jump in the cost of living in more than four decades. ...

16 Aug 2022 at 18:06

Ireland

Consumer spending dropped by 0.5% in July

Consumer spending during the month of July dropped by 0.5%, the first decrease in spending of the year since January, according to the AIB Spend Trend. Despite this overall decrease, spending ...

19 Aug 2022 at 12:26

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