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Figures released by the Ministry of Economy and Labour showed a decrease in retail sales volume in January year-over-year

Hamilton’s busy streets in the final week of Christmas shopping are not indicative of the true state of retail sales, with the latest official figures continuing the picture of a decisive softness in local retail spending since the summer of 2021. Sh...

The latest monthly retail sales figures showed another slump — the third month in a row and the twelfth time in 14 months. The worrying trend showed retail sales volume was down by nearly five per cent in August compared with the same month last year...

Retailers threatened by the rise of e-commerce need the Christmas holiday shopping season more and more to rescue their financial year. Increasingly, they have welcomed the added feature of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday boost. But not Makin’ Waves on...

Shoppers hit the streets of Hamilton on Black Friday with an appetite to spend, a leading retailer said last week. Nicole Warren, general manager at Brown and Co and 59 Front, said: “We had an encouraging day. “Customers definitely came out for a vis...

A popular community market is back tomorrow, two years after it launched with just a few stalls to its name. The vendors market at Brenda’s Pool on South Shore in Warwick was kick-started by area MP Lawrence Scott in 2020. The weekly market, which no...

Twelve years after government sought to arrest the decline in retail sales, the ‘Buy Bermuda’ campaign may be in jeopardy. Alarmingly in 2010, government reported how resident purchases overseas increased by a whopping 14 per cent per cent in June 2...

June’s retail sales volume fell to a lower level than the pre-pandemic June of 2019, the government reported Friday night. Even less food was sold. Retail sales for June 2022 decreased 4.3 per cent compared to last year. In value terms, retail sales ...

Retail sales reversed a nine-month trend and rebounded for spring, as reflected in the April 2022 Retail Sales Index. The Ministry of Economy and Labour said April’s retail sales grew 14.2 per cent compared with last year, after nine consecutive mont...

The mother of all bargain sales is slated for the Leopards Club this weekend. Selling space is still available at the two-day extravaganza which was organised by Us5 Bermudians, a group of female friends whose aim is to improve their “personal socio-...

Retail sales remain in a tailspin seven months on, with the latest figures showing they fell again in January, this time down 6.3 per cent compared with the same period last year. In value terms, retail sales fell 2.7 per cent from the previous year’...

December 2021 was a less than merry month, according to the latest retail sales report from the Department of Statistics. The December 2021 Retail Sales Index report showed that the volume of retail sales fell 8.8 per cent compared with the same mont...