A relentless expansion in capacity, physical and digital, means too many mouths to feed, and pressure of margins.

UK apparel entered the pandemic in a weak state. Too many stores, too much footage, too many websites, all adding up to chronic...

As we inch towards the end of 2020 the UK retail industry is facing into a 2021 double whammy. Not only are the prospects of COVID 19...

While Covid has impacted most aspects of life, non-essential retail has especially struggled having faced months of store closures....

Since bursting on the UK retail scene nearly a decade ago, Black Friday has been pulling December sales forward into November. Back in...

Working out the size of the hit to UK non-essential retail from lockdown is bound to be inexact. But it’s worth doing anyway....

Much of non-essential retail’s 2020 profit had already been wiped out. The latest lockdown will put paid to the rest, and more. Not so...

Tesco’s recent interims showed that in the 6 months to end August 2020, its operating margin was 3.8%. At M&S’s recent trading update it...

First Black Friday. Now the pandemic. It’s getting much harder to work out what Christmas trading will look like. History is less...