
British retail sales have fallen by the most since June during this month's lockdown across the bulk of the country, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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British retail sales have fallen by the most since June during this month's lockdown across the bulk of the country, a survey showed on Tuesday.
The resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic prompted a sharper fall in new orders for British factories this month, a survey showed on Thursday.
A raft of major stores are extending opening hours in a final push for pre-lockdown sales ahead of Thursday's deadline, with non-essential retailers set to face £2 billion in lost pre-Christmas weekly sales.
Increased local lockdowns and the resurgence of Covid infections spelt more bad news for UK retail on Wednesday as any hint of a recovery was stopped in its tracks this month.
UK finance minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday unveiled fresh plans to help the pandemic-hit economy with a jobs support scheme to help people employed on shorter hours, but warned he could not save every business or role.
Amazon brought a little cheer to Britain's troubled labour market on Thursday, saying it will create a further 7,000 permanent jobs in 2020, taking total new hires this year to 10,000.
UK retail jobs are being lost at the fastest rate since the global financial crisis in 2009, the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey has found, while sales have fallen and further drops are due next month.
British manufacturing remains "severely depressed", with new orders still well below normal, according to a survey on Friday that shows a very weak recovery is underway.
British retailers discounted their goods less in July than the month before, after consumer demand picked up in many sectors as lockdown restrictions eased, data from the British Retail Consortium showed on Wednesday.
Eight out of 10 British retailers reported cash flow difficulties this month as sales dropped sharply again during the coronavirus lockdown, an industry survey showed on Tuesday.