Shoppers taking the opportunity to stock up on home comforts and food supplies ahead of the England-wide lockdown helped total retail sales increase 4.9 per cent in the four weeks to October 31, indicating some respite for the UK retailer hampered by coronavirus restrictions this year. Despite the lift – …
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The group said that the retail industry “shoulders far more than its fair share” of rates bills and that the tax was “leading to store closures.”
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