European Retail Trends – Winter 2023
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Slowing inflation offers a glimmer of optimism. Yet, retailers cannot let up on their focus on price and value until the cost of living crisis has fully subsided.
Utku Tansel, Retail Analyst
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key findings
- Inflation peaked but consumers not out of the woods yet
- Graph 1: inflation, overall index (HCIP), 2022-23
- Graph 2: key markets, HCIP/CPIH inflation, 2022-23
- Cost of living crisis affects financial wellbeing
- Graph 3: financial wellbeing by country, 2023
- Graph 4: future financial confidence, 2023
- Graph 5: retail sales, calendar adjusted non-seasonally adjusted in value and volume, 2022-23
- Launch activity and innovation for Q4 2023
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European Retail Sales
- Graph 6: inflation, overall index (HCIP), 2022-23
- Graph 7: inflation, overall index (HCIP), by highest report levels in October 2023
- Graph 8: inflation, overall index (HCIP), lowest report levels in October 2023, 2022-23
- Graph 9: retail sales, calendar adjusted non-seasonally adjusted in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 10: retail sales, calendar adjusted non-seasonally adjusted in value and volume, highest and lowest report value growth, Q2 2022 vs Q2 2023
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UK: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 11: changes in financial situation over the past year trend data, 2023
- Graph 12: the financial confidence index, 2016-23
- Graph 13: all retail sales (excluding fuel), non-seasonally adjusted year-on-year performance by value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 14: all retail sales (excluding fuel), non-seasonally adjusted year-on-year performance by value and volume, by core category, 2023
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France: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 15: financial wellbeing, 2022-23
- Graph 16: future financial confidence, 2022-23
- Graph 17: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 18: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume by category, 2023
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Italy: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 19: financial wellbeing, 2022-23
- Graph 20: future financial confidence, 2022-23
- Graph 21: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 22: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume by category, 2023
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Germany: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 23: financial wellbeing, 2022-23
- Graph 24: future financial confidence, 2022-23
- Graph 25: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 26: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume by category, 2023
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spain: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 27: financial wellbeing, 2022-23
- Graph 28: future financial confidence, 2022-23
- Graph 29: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 30: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume by category, 2023
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poland: Consumer Sentiment and Retail Sales
- Graph 31: financial wellbeing, 2022-23
- Graph 32: future financial confidence, 2022-23
- Graph 33: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume, 2022-23
- Graph 34: retail sales (unadjusted data (ie neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data)) performance in value and volume by category, 2023
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Launch Activity and Innovation for Q4 2023
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special focus: Dissecting the quiet luxury trend
- Why is quiet luxury popular right now?
- Why is it important?
- Graph 35: purchasing behaviours regarding clothing in the past 12 months, by gender, 2023
- Graph 36: consumers who have spent more on higher-quality fashion items in the past 12 months or are planning to do so, by net monthly household income, 2023
- How to monetise quiet luxury
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