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Shoppers start to return in-store – but numbers are still well down on pre-pandemic levels

Location
7 May 2021
by Chloe Rigby
The number of people visiting shops started to recover as non-essential retail opened last month – but is still lagging well behind pre-pandemic levels...
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Northern Ireland to give adult residents £100 to spend in-store only in high street stimulus plan

COVID-19
30 Apr 2021
by Chloe Rigby
Northern Ireland is to give adult residents £100 each to spend in their local high street – and not online – in a stimulus plan designed to...
Covid-19 stimulus plan the changing high street
Shoppers appear keen to return in-store but still nervous about crowds. Image: Shutterstock

As stores reopen, are shoppers returning – and what are the implications for online sales?

Location
16 Apr 2021
by Chloe Rigby
Five days after shops have reopened, the appetite to shop in store seems at least initially to be stronger. Vaccinations appear to be giving new...
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Shops in city centres have closed at a faster rate than in towns or villages. Image: Adobe Stock

A year on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, has the way UK shoppers buy changed for good?

COVID-19
23 Mar 2021
by Chloe Rigby
A year ago today, non-essential retail closed in the first Covid-19 lockdown. How has the way we buy changed since then – and what happens next?
Covid-19 lockdown online sales shift online the changing high street
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EDITORIAL Has the way we shop changed for good over the last year of Covid-19?

Editorial
23 Mar 2021
by Chloe Rigby
In today’s InternetRetailing newsletter, we look back on how retail has changed over the last long year. For today marks one year since non...
Covid-19 shift online the changing high street
Shoppers moved online fast during lockdown. Image: screenshot of shoezone.com

Shoe Zone looks to digital for growth as it closes stores hit by the effects of Covid-19

Location
8 Mar 2021
by Chloe Rigby
The retailer says some towns are no longer viable for its business as other complementary businesses have closed
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PEAK 2020 Visitors return to high streets – but footfall and planned spending both still appear to be down on last year

Peak
14 Dec 2020
by Chloe Rigby
InternetRetailing rounds up the latest news, insights and trends on how retailers and customers are responding to peak trading this year
Covid-19 footfall lockdown Springboard the changing high street The Nottingham

Returned business rates cash ‘could help support non-essential retailers’ through the rest of Covid-19

Peak
4 Dec 2020
by Chloe Rigby
Business rates cash now being returned to the UK government by essential retailers should now be given to help non-essential retailers who have faced...
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Arcadia Group brands up for sale and 13,000 jobs at risk in administration that has dealt the latest blow to the UK high street as shoppers continue to shift spending online

Industry
1 Dec 2020
by Chloe Rigby
Arcadia Group has called in the administrators overnight, putting about 13,000 jobs at risk. The business, owned by Sir Philip Green and his family...
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ANALYSIS When customers are steering clear of stores and buying online instead, where do shops go from here?

Location
19 Oct 2020
by Chloe Rigby
Stores are continuing to close as the coronavirus pandemic has pushed shopping online further and faster than ever before. Footfall to stores is down, according...
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