What with the royal wedding, the men’s football World Cup and the glorious weather last summer, retailers have a hard act to follow this year and things are about to get much worse, analysts and business leaders say.
Don’t be fooled by the weekend’s hot weather: the state of retail in Britain is gloomy. The CBI, Britain’s biggest business lobby group, found that retail sales volumes fell at their fastest pace in a decade in the year to June.
What with the royal wedding, the men’s football World Cup and the glorious weather last summer, retailers have a hard act to follow this year and things are about to get much worse, analysts and business leaders say.
Don’t be fooled by the weekend’s hot weather: the state of retail in Britain is gloomy. The CBI, Britain’s biggest business lobby group, found that retail sales volumes fell at their fastest pace in a decade in the year to June.
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