Supermarket sales drop by 10% after last month’s panic buying as people ease up on stockpiling

Supermarket sales drop by 10% after last month’s panic buying as people ease up on stockpiling Large Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons stores have seen a drop in sales  Less stockpiling and social distancing measures have led to a dip in sales By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:22 BST, 11 April … Read more

Jaguar Land Rover puts brakes on as car sales slump 30% since start of the year

Jaguar Land Rover puts brakes on as car sales slump 30% since start of the year as lockdown bites  JLR suffered slumps in both Europe and China, sources said  It is also understood to have suffered a fall in demand for diesel cars JLR had been due to reopen its UK assembly plants later this … Read more

Games Workshop shares march higher as sales surpass £250m

Games Workshop shares march higher after the Warhammer creator hands out £5m in staff bonuses (again) and sales surpass £250m Games Workshop shares jumped 5% on Friday after the firm updated the market It said it has handed out more than £5million in staff bonuses this year The firm said it expects its full-year sales … Read more

Sales of Easter eggs, wine, barbecues and paddling pools soar ahead of four-day break 

Sales of paddling pools and barbecues have skyrocketed in the lead up to the Easter weekend as Brits prepare for a sun-drenched lockdown in the back garden after police threatened to stomp out all non-essential travel. Sunny forecasts for the weekend has seen sun loungers and parasols sell out on online websites, as officers warned … Read more

Booze sales soar as 23m sign up to Disney’s new streaming service

Lockdown UK turns to drink and Disney: Booze sales soar as 23m sign up to the new streaming service By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 9 April 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 9 April 2020 Life under lockdown has driven us to spend more nights in front of the telly with … Read more

Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group expects sales to drop by 50pc this year – and furloughs staff

Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group expects sales to drop by 50% this year – and furloughs 20,000 staff By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:55 BST, 8 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 8 April 2020 Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group expects sales will drop by 50pc this year – and has furloughed … Read more

Panic-buying boosted Tesco sales by 30%

Tesco’s today defended its decision to hand out £900million in shareholder dividends despite securing a £585million tax break from the Government while its sales soared by almost a third in a month because of coronavirus stockpiling. The Government has been urged to rethink its taxpayer-funded 12-month business rates holiday for Britain’s largest supermarkets, who will together … Read more

UK new car sales nosedive by almost half in March as coronavirus hits

New car registrations in Britain fell by 44 per cent in March as the coronavirus crisis hit the economy and forced many would-be buyers to stay at home. Sales totalled 254,684 units, making it by far the weakest March – which is typically one of the top two selling months of the year – since … Read more

Fashion bosses slash salaries after asking taxpayer to pay staff amidst devastating drops in sales

Fashion bosses slash salaries after asking taxpayer to pay staff amidst devastating drops in sales By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:57 BST, 3 April 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 3 April 2020 Hit hard: Topshop has recently turned to supermodel Lottie Moss to front its fashion campaigns Fashion bosses slashed their salaries … Read more

The sales are on and flights are cheap. There’s no better time to visit New York than in new year

The Big Apple in December is glamorous and glittering, carried on a tide of spectacular department store window displays, floodlit ice rinks, Radio City Christmas specials and bell-ringing Santas on Fifth Avenue. But that all comes at a price. A sky-high price, in fact, along with impossible-to-get-in restaurants, sold-out Broadway shows and claustrophobic, congested sidewalks. … Read more