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Retailers enjoy new year boost
UK retailers hired more than 3,000 new staff and opened 837 new shops in the past quarter compared with the first-quarter of 2010, new research published today shows.
In a sign of the sector’s resilience, retail employment rose 0.5 per cent in the quarter compared with the first-quarter of 2010, the British Retail Consortium’s BRC-Bond Pearce Retail Employment Monitor showed.
Despite a late Easter and a slowdown in customer spending, the survey suggests UK retail is still expanding.