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External environment: UK retailers cut 85,000 jobs in a year

24th October 2019
This article from the Guardian is packed with useful insights into the challenging external environment faced by UK high street retail chains.
There are huge cost pressures and other uncertainties facing the retail sector at present. These include:
- A rise in the national minimum wage and the apprenticeship levy
- Higher business rates
- Increased import prices due to a depreciation in the external value of sterling
- Continued Brexit uncertainty
- Impact of the switch to online shopping
The number of empty retail units is at the highest level for five years. In numerous towns across the country, vigorous debates are being had about how to revitalise the retail environment in the facing of some serious long term structural challenges.

Packed with useful insights into the challenging external environment faced by UK high street retail chains. https://t.co/ahJQAwsTBC
— tutor2u Business (@tutor2uBusiness) October 24, 2019
Retailers cut 85,000 jobs in past year https://t.co/kf3IFq38HX
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 23, 2019
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