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The Retail Note | Retail sales: flatter than a pancake?
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for March from the ONS, which were largely unexciting and borderline lackluster.
7 days ago
Retail sales: flat = uneven?
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for February from the ONS, which point to uneven consumer demand.
One month ago
Body Shopped Out
This week’s Retail Note analyses the administration of The Body Shop and potential buy-out of Superdry.
2 months ago
Retail sales: off to a dubious flyer in January
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for January from the ONS, which showed an unlikely rebound.
2 months ago
Q4 2023: a precursor to a better 2024 for retail?
This week’s Retail Note focusses on Knight Frank’s Q4 2023 Retail Monitor and assesses what it says about the state of the retail economy and what we may expect to see as 2024 unfolds.
2 months ago
Christmas: a December Disaster
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for December from the ONS, which were terrible and completely contradictory to the messages conveyed by retailers themselves.
3 months ago
Christmas: positive messaging at the coalface
This week’s Retail Note analyses this week’s newsflow from the retail sector on Christmas trading – with major retailers far more upbeat than industry bodies.
3 months ago

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This week’s Retail Note provides an initial read on the performance of the retail market over the festive period – and why much of the narrative needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
3 months ago
For the final Retail Note of 2023, we focus on the retail property investment market – where next year will be decidedly better than this, as explored in Knight Frank’s hot off the press Retail…
4 months ago
This week’s Retail Note showcases our latest major Retail Research Report ‘Foodstores: a Feeding Frenzy’, an exceedingly deep-dive into the UK supermarket sector.
4 months ago
This week’s Retail Note draws on an article from our recent retail thought leadership report, ‘A Retail Renaissance’. Penned by my esteemed colleague Emma Barnstable, the article explores how…
5 months ago
After a few weeks’ rest, the Retail Note returns. This Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for September from the ONS, which were underwhelming.
6 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for July from the ONS, which weren’t good by any stretch.
8 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for June from the ONS, which once again defied macro-economic gravity.
9 months ago
This week’s Retail Note references Knight Frank’s newly-released ‘Retail Investment Update’, which analyses investment in all types of retail property in H1 2023.
9 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the true implications of two high street stalwarts seemingly downsizing their respective physical footprints.
10 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for May from the ONS, which surprised on the upside – yet again.
10 months ago