CHARITY RETAIL SALES TRACKER Are you outperforming the market? Charity retail sales are booming. The average performance over the past 12 months is 13.2% year on year sales improvement. Apr-23 15.9% Mar-23 14.4% Feb-23 16.8% Jan-23 14.8% Dec-22 17.9% Nov-22 10.9% Oct-22 11.7% Sep-22 6.6% Aug-22 10.1% Jul-22 13.3% Jun-22 7.2% May-22 18.4% Supplied[…]
Retail Property insight Charities come in all shapes and sizes; each have their own different property needs but satisfying their own property requirements is not easy. Background Today many charities are currently looking to expand their retail estate or change the locations of some of their shops. Large retail units are now very popular with[…]
Background There has been so much change within retail since 2000, with a considerable number of mainstream retailers that have closed. Most people can remember Woolworths, Debenhams, BHS, Austin Reed, Blockbuster, and there are so many more. There was a time when most towns had shoe shops, bookshops, and a range of different clothing shops[…]
Many charities are considering updating or having a retail strategy for good reason. Retail is going through its biggest change in history driven by the growth of online shopping and changing consumer shopping habits and its now highly influenced by the economic recession. To write a successful charity retail strategy you require the following areas[…]
Is training strategic or operational? Many people don’t consider charity retail training as strategic; it tends to be grouped within the category of legal compliance or operational necessity. However, developing people within charity retail can be highly strategic because if done correctly it brings considerable long-term benefits. Unlike shop managers within mainstream retailers, charity shop[…]
After the strains of 2020 and 2021 most people are looking forward hopefully to some normality in 2022 but the landscape will inevitably be quite different to life before 2020. Our blog ‘The perfect storm’ sets out clearly the reasons why the economic landscape is changing. Most Charity Retailers have updated their retail strategies since[…]
