The reopening of non-essential stores has seen shoppers flocking back to the high street. Footfall soared over 90% during the first week that non-essential stores reopened. However, the home delivery expert ParcelHero is warning that the High Street may never return to its 2019 pre-pandemic peak. It has launched a new report revealing how dramatically […]
Office for National Statistics (ONS) retail sales figures for March reveal the value of online sales boomed by 62% against the same month last year, which was the first-ever lockdown month. The home delivery expert ParcelHero says shoppers decided not to wait for the reopening of stores in April and continued to splash the cash […]
Retail sales volume in March increased by 5.4% when compared with the previous month and sales were 1.6% higher than February 2020 before the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit. Food sales saw monthly growth of 2.5% with a boost for specialist food stores as consumers prepared for the Easter period. Non-food stores provided the […]
The UK government has responded to coronavirus-conscious spending habits by further increasing the regulatory limit on contactless card payments from £45 to £100 and the multiple transaction limit from £130 to £300. While supporting end user convenience and providing a much-needed boost to a struggling high street this has, in effect, removed a vital personal […]
As small businesses open their doors again, a survey conducted by business support organisation the Forum of Private Business indicates that only a quarter of business owners have instigated a policy of requiring staff to undertake a Covid jab before returning to work. Whilst a third recognise that having a jab is necessary to maintain […]
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is kicking off a new campaign to highlight the measures local businesses are taking to make their premises Covid-secure. The campaign, called “Open for Business, Safely”, will promote the steps that shops, cafes, gyms, beauty salons, transport providers and others have put in place to make their premises safe […]
Shoppers have braved localised snow showers to visit their favourite high street stores for the first time since 4 January. Queues formed outside many stores, but the home delivery expert ParcelHero says nearly 50% of shoppers will never return to their pre-Covid high street shopping habits. ParcelHero’s head of consumer research, David Jinks MILT. says: […]
2020 was a turbulent year in which much of retail bounced between being open and closed, significantly impacting sales and the ability to make meaningful comparisons. In this context, all 2021 figures are compared with 2019 (pre-pandemic). This means our 2021 figures are now year-on-two-years (Yo2Y), rather than year-on-year (YoY). Covering the five weeks 28 […]
As lockdown measures ease and non-essential shops reopen national discount scheme, My VIP Card, has launched its campaign ‘Shop Small to Help Out’ and vows to promote thousands of local shops and services to its huge network of UK shoppers. As part of the campaign any small businesses can now sign up for free and […]
As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online. According to Mastercard’s latest Recovery Insights report, this amounted to an additional $900bn being spent in retail online around the world in 2020. Put another way: in 2020, e-commerce made up roughly £1.50 out of every […]
