Tag Archives: Scottish Retail Sales Monitor

Predicting the Post-Covid Retail Landscape: presentation for Scottish Grocers Federation Cross Party Group

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Leigh Sparks

Later on today (from 1815 on the 16th March to be exact) I will be presenting virtually at the latest Scottish Grocers Federation organised Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Local Convenience Stores. I will be speaking, together with David … Continue reading →

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Scottish Retail Sales: Covid Impacts against the Long Term Data

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Leigh Sparks

The British/Scottish Retail Consortium has been producing its Scottish Retail Sales Monitor for a long time.  I have been charting the results since last century (!) and have commented on the monthly figures in this blog before, for example here … Continue reading →

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Great Expectations

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Leigh Sparks

I was not intending to add to my previous two posts on data and reporting (footfall and store openings and closures), but then I saw the coverage (looking at you again in the first instance BBC) of last week’s Scottish … Continue reading →

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Easter, Tesco and M&S

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Leigh Sparks

Another month, another set of Scottish retail sales figures, another disast…   Oh, hang on, these weren’t the worst figures ever; which makes quite a nice change. The headline figures were actually not so bad; well at first glance. But, look … Continue reading →

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Worst Scottish Sales Fall Since at least 1999 – AGAIN

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Leigh Sparks

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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Christmas and Hogmanay had better be good

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Leigh Sparks

Two sets of figures out this week: CPI is 5.2%; RPI is 5.6% (where did the 2% target go?) Scottish Retail Sales: Total up 0.8%, Like for Like down 0.6% (UK comparables +2.5% and +0.3%). As the Scottish Retail Consortium … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Leigh Sparks

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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