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Clothing and footwear prices increase despite decline in shop prices

London - Clothing and footwear prices increased month-on-month for the first time in close to two years despite of an overall drop in shop prices across the UK, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). Shop prices dropped 1.4 percent last month compared to December 2015, the smallest decline since August 2015, in comparison to the 1.7...

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Shop prices drop throughout 2014 as deflation endures

Overall shop prices continued to drop throughout every month of 2014, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The group predicts that shop prices will continue to deflate in 2015, driven by slipping oil prices. The most recent data from the BRC indicated that shop prices fell once more last month, making it the twentieth consecutive...