Scottish Retail Consortium

Total retail sales in Scotland increased by 15.3% in April this year compared with April 2021, when they had grown by 107.9%, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) & KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.

Scottish shopping centre footfall in the four weeks of April declined by 20%, signalling an improvement on the decline of 32.0% in March, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Footfall Monitor.

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has called for 'early and concrete action' to sustain the drop in the Scottish shop vacancy rate. In the first quarter of 2022, the Scottish vacancy rate decreased to 15.8%, from 16.1% in Q4 2021. It was 0.5 percentage points higher than in the same point in 2021

Scottish retail sales have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG retail sales monitor.

Scottish shopper footfall decreased by 21.1% in March (Yo3Y), 0.5 percentage points better than February, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Scottish Footfall Monitor.

Business rates for retailers as well as hospitality and leisure premises in Scotland are being reinstated from tomorrow, at a rate which has been labelled by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) as an "onerous" 23-year high.

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) is seeking early action from policymakers to entice shoppers back to city centres as most of the final remaining covid restrictions on shops and eateries are rescinded from today. It is almost exactly two years to the day since the first lockdown was introduced o

Scottish retail sales remain behind pre-Covid-19 levels, according to the latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) & KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.

Scottish footfall decreased by 17.5% in February (Yo2Y), 1.3 percentage points worse than January, according to the latest Scottish Footfall Monitor from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ.

A new National Strategy for Economic Transformation, underpinned by detailed analysis of Scotland’s economic strengths and weaknesses, has been published by the Scottish Government.

Scottish retail sales in Scotland decreased by 7.9% in January, an improvement of .1 percentage points from December 2021 and is the lowest Yo2Y decline recorded since July last year.

Scottish footfall decreased by 16.2% in January (Yo2Y), a 6.6 percentage point improvement on December, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and Sensormatic IQ Footfall Monitor.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, the Scottish vacancy rate decreased to 16.1%, from 16.4% in Q3, according to the latest figures published by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and the Local Data Company.

A fresh analysis undertaken by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimates shops in Scotland have missed out on £5.8 billion of retail sales during the past two years of the Covid pandemic.

Total retail sales in Scotland increased by 15.6% compared in December, compared to the same period the year before, when they had decreased by 16.6%, according to the latest Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.