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...Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive, said the latest figures indicated that prices were “showing signs of normalising, providing relief to households” after the cost of living crisis....
...“Rising geopolitical tensions will also add to uncertainty and costs in supply chains,” said Dickinson....
...Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NielsenIQ, which contributed to compiling the data, said: “Price discounting was deeper and began earlier not just in the non-food channel but also...
...Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight, at NielsenIQ, who helped compile the data, said that food retailers would “be optimistic that footfall will increase as inflation slows and shoppers get...
...The slowdown was driven by “easing input costs for energy and fertiliser while retailers competed fiercely to keep prices down”, said BRC’s chief executive Helen Dickinson....
...“As inflation continues to decelerate, we now need an uptick in sentiment to help retail sales over the next eight weeks,” said Watkins....
...“With further price cuts by supermarkets in recent weeks, food inflation continues to slow, which is good news,” said Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NielsenIQ, which helped compile...
...He joins from Latham & Watkins. Lloyds Banking Group will appoint Nathan Bostock as a non-executive director from August. He is a former chief executive of Santander UK....
...“We expect some global commodity prices to rise again as a result and food prices will be slower to fall,” said Dickinson....
...Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the fall in shop prices was driven by the cost of food, “particularly for products such as meat, potatoes and some cooking oils”....
...“Households up and down the country will welcome the easing of shop price inflation in June,” said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium....
...Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive, said that “while overall shop price inflation rose slightly . . . households will welcome food inflation beginning to fall”....
...Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business Insight at NielsenIQ, which helps compile the data, said the inflationary pressures had forced customers to change their habits....
...Dickinson said that while there were signs that cost pressures might start to ease in 2023, “Christmas cheer will be dampened this year”....
...Responding to Wednesday’s data, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said: “2023 will be another difficult year for consumers and businesses as inflation shows no immediate signs of waning.”...
...He sets a poem by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, abolitionist and campaigner for women’s rights, though it is difficult to catch many of the words here....
...“Offering easy access by car, free parking and more open space, consumers feel safe and know they can enjoy their shopping experience,” said Helen Dickinson, head of the British Retail Consortium....
...Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said ministers “must act to ensure that retail rents take account of the ongoing crisis in the industry”....
...The BRC’s chief executive Helen Dickinson described retail conditions in the UK as “the toughest they have been for a decade”....
...Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive, said: This will ease the squeeze on consumer incomes over the coming year, but it’s likely to do little to lift the rate of growth in consumption....
...Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the sharp decline in footfall highlighted the “transformed” retail industry with a shift online....
...You can name three or, in the past century, probably two: Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman. What he is saying is there’s something about photography....
...“Retailers have been discounting since before Black Friday and have had sales ever since,” said Diane Wehrle, marketing and insights director of Springboard....
...“This is actually relatively low in the in the face of input costs that are rising much faster,” Ms Dickinson said of food inflation....
...She runs through a list of photographers: “Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Richard Prince and so on....
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