Новости за 20.11.2020

In a bid to make the most of final Christmas week trading, Marks & Spencer will extend opening hours to midnight for 400 of its UK stores. The retail giant is also calling for Sunday trading hours to be extended.

A new extension to the pre-Christmas retail ‘circuit-breaker' in Northern Ireland could turn into a longer power cut for many businesses deemed non-essential.

Just when you thought UK retail confidence couldn't get any worse. Further worrying news emerged Friday that consumer confidence fell again and concerns over personal finances for 2021 dipped further, according to GfK.

London stocks inched higher on Friday as upbeat retail sales data, the prospect of easing coronavirus restrictions and hopes for a vaccine set the benchmark indexes on course for their third straight week of gains.

​The 30-year-old Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre in Rochdale is set to close forever once the current English lockdown comes to an end, with MCR Property Group drawing a line under its three years operating the mall.

​Black Friday will see plunging footfall in many parts of the UK as much of the country is in some sort of lockdown. But click and collect could hold out some hope for physical shops, a new forecast suggests.

​Slow fashion is being embraced by older consumers but young shoppers who want to get involved “suffer from participation barriers”, according to a new study.

Fashion stores were weak performers in October, despite an online uplift and early Christmas shopping, the latest official UK retail sales data showed on Friday.

French fashion group Omnium has sold the men's and women’s ready-to-wear retailer to the businessman who bought Habitat, and also owns stakes in Chevignon, San Marina and Maison Lejaby.