Retail industry lost 70,000 jobs in the last three months of 2018

Peter Lazenby - 24 January 2019

BRITAIN’S retail crisis accelerated in the last three months of 2018 with 70,000 jobs axed in the sector, research revealed today.

The number of employees in the sector fell by 2.2 per cent in the final quarter of last year when compared with the same period in 2017, said the British Retail Consortium (BRC)... See more