Easter Food Spending Lifts UK Retail Sales by Most Since August

LONDON (Reuters) - An early Easter ... retail spending in March was 3.5% higher than a year earlier, up from annual growth of 1.1% in February, and exceeding the pace of the most recent consumer ... Read More

Easter helps retail sales improve for boost after difficult start to year

Retail sales improved in March, largely driven by an early Easter but providing a boost ... Separate figures from Barclays suggest consumer card spending growth flatlined in March, on a par ... Read More

Early Easter help gives retail sales a boost after challenging start to year

Retail sales in March saw a noticeable improvement, largely driven by an early Easter, providing firms ... data from Barclays indicates that consumer card spending growth stalled in March ... Read More

Consumer Spending Growth Remains Slow, But Easter Spending Up On Last Year

although they did spend more over Easter this year than last year. Data released by Worldline NZ today shows consumer spending through Core Retail merchants (excluding Hospitality) in its payments ... Read More

City snapshot: Early Easter boosts March retail sales

Strong food sales in the run-up to this year’s early Easter boosted UK retail sales ... this morning, consumer card spending growth flatlined in March, on par with February’s modest 1.9% uplift and ... Read More

UK retailers given hope of ‘green shoots of recovery’ after Easter pickup

Sector enjoyed best month in more than two years in March, consumer spending report shows An early Easter ... the retail sector might be emerging from a protracted soft patch, the latest snapshot ... Read More

Easter news: Bank holiday weekend updates, store opening and closing times and travel advice

The Australian model, 30, took to her Instagram Stories on Monday to share a sweet video of her one-month-old daughter Gia, who was born on Easter Sunday. Read More

Easter helps retail sales improve for boost after difficult start to year

Linda Ellett, UK head of leisure and retail consumer markets at KPMG, said: “An early Easter showed green shoots of spring for retailers in March, with sales growth up a more positive 3.5% on ... Read More