Last Christmas: What can the festive period tell us about the retail year to come?
With another golden quarter over, Retail Week unpicks the key trends surrounding Christmas 2023 and looks at what they might mean for the year ahead
While food retailers across the price spectrum reported record festive feasts, the overall picture emerging from the Christmas trading season has been more complicated.
As we reach the end of the welter of Christmas trading updates that always marks January, grocery appears to have enjoyed almost universal festive cheer. For the wider sector, though, hopes for it being “alright on the night” have faded.
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