Tag Archives: Consumer Confidence

Worst Scottish Sales Fall Since at least 1999 – AGAIN

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

There comes a point where even I, with my inbuilt Welsh pessimism (except when playing Scotland at rugby), get fed up with the bad news. But here we go again. The Scottish Retail Sales Monitor reporting on retail sales in … Continue reading →

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Summertime … … … and the retailing is (far from) easy

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

You know how it is … you go away for a few weeks and when you come back everything is sort of the same, but well also, sort of different. The British (maybe only Scottish) summer is of course a … Continue reading →

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Scottish Retail Sales: Hitting the Bottom or Still in Freefall?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

Today’s retail sales figures for March for Scotland (the Scottish Retail Sales Monitor published by the Scottish Retail Consortium) show the worst total sales performance ever measured since the series began in 1999; so much for overdoing the doom and … Continue reading →

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