Food prices have risen by 4.9 percent so far this year in the UK, their fastest rise in two years, with a gain of 0.2 percent just in May from April, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, as food prices rose twice as much as consumer prices overall. At the current [...]
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said Tuesday that retail sales were down by 2.1 percent in May in stores open for a year or longer, over the same month last year, while sales were down 0.3 percent when newly opened stores were included in the data. Sales fell or were flat in all categories, including [...]
The British Retail Consotrium (BRC) was ahead of the game Monday as it released new guidelines asking its members to stop selling childrens’ clothes that are too sheer or revealing, that have suggestive logos, or that could be seen as too “grown-up”, such as underwired or padded bras marketed to very young girls. The guidelines [...]
