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Loss Of Nearly 15,000 UK Retail Jobs A ‘Brutal Start To 2023’

Nearly 15,000 British retail jobs have already been cut since January in a “brutal start to the year” for the high street.

Read the full article on The Guardian website

NAM Implications:
  • And not even at the end of the beginning, as yet…
  • ‘Business rates relief means that new bills will be discounted by 75% for the tax year from April 2023 to the end of March 2024’
  • …sounds good from a political POV…
  • …but boils down to 10% for large chains.
  • Making it necessary for the mults to resort to cutting labour costs as the only way…