Final quarter of 2020 saw retail health recover by a further point with the Retail Health Index score edging up to 68, from its Q2 nadir of 61 Premium food and drink boosted retail performance in December The RTT predicts retail health will fall back by 2 points during Q1 2021 because of the lockdown…
Friday 16 October 2020 The third quarter of 2020 saw retail health recover six points with the Retail Health Index score climbing back to 67, from its Q2 nadir of 61, thanks to the release of pent-up demand The RTT predicts that health will improve by a further one point during Q4, albeit with a…
21 July 2020 The second quarter of 2020 saw retail health plummet by 10 points to a record low RHI score of just 61 The RTT predicts that health will improve by 3 points as pent up demand is released, but that will depend on the general mood music, the unwinding of the furlough…
28 April 2020 The Retail Health Index fell by 3 points to 71 in the first quarter of 2020, a new record low Health is predicted to deteriorate further and even more sharply in the second quarter of 2020 – by 9 points to 62 – although this is highly dependent on the length and…
16 January 2020 The KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank (RTT) has concluded that the crucial final quarter of 2019 failed to provide retailers with any respite from the onslaught of deteriorating health in the sector. Demand over the key trading weeks prior to Christmas failed to make up for lost ground if looking at the quarter…
The KPMG/Ipsos Retail Think Tank (RTT) has determined that – as predicted* – retail health in the third quarter of 2019 has surpassed the historic low previously recorded in the final quarter of 2012, when the UK’s economy faced the so-called ‘double-dip recession’. The latest retail health index (RHI) figures sees the third quarter of…