Cost of living pressures also affected spending habits, it said, with consumer confidence still weak.
Shoppers are more reluctant to make bigger purchases, the BRC added.
Shoppers are more reluctant to make bigger purchases, the BRC added.
However, when they did, shoppers were “being much more purposeful about their trips”, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson told the BBC’s Today programme.
She said people were “going out less and upping what they were buying each time in terms of volume of purchases”.
Overall, Ms Dickinson said the retail market was “very volatile” and “quite a mixed picture”.
“People are much more reticent on bigger purchases, particularly because of the pressures of cost of living,” she said, but added that retailers are “very resilient”.
Shoppers are more reluctant to make bigger purchases, the BRC added.
Cost of living pressures also affected spending habits, it said, with consumer confidence still weak.
However, when they did, shoppers were “being much more purposeful about their trips”, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson told the BBC’s Today programme.
Shoppers are more reluctant to make bigger purchases, the BRC added.
Shoppers are more reluctant to make bigger purchases, the BRC added.
However, when they did, shoppers were “being much more purposeful about their trips”, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson told the BBC’s Today programme.
She said people were “going out less and upping what they were buying each time in terms of volume of purchases”.
Overall, Ms Dickinson said the retail market was “very volatile” and “quite a mixed picture”.
“People are much more reticent on bigger purchases, particularly because of the pressures of cost of living,” she said, but added that retailers are “very resilient”.
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