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Holiday 2024: UK Retail Wrap-Up—Cautious Spending and Late Shopping Fuel Volatile Peak Trading
January 24, 2025 15 minutes

Holiday 2024: UK Retail Wrap-Up—Cautious Spending and Late Shopping Fuel Volatile Peak Trading

Primary Analyst:
John Mercer, Head of Global Research and Managing Director of Data-Driven Research
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Primary Analyst:
John Mercer, Head of Global Research and Managing Director of Data-Driven Research
Festivals and Holidays Food and Grocery
Insight Report

What's Inside

Understand holiday 2024 retail performance in the UK with our conclusions from peak-season trading. We also look ahead to the prospects for 2025. In this wrap-up, we assess data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), as well as external metrics of retail and consumer health, and trading updates from major retail companies.

Data in this research report include:

  • Total UK retail sales growth, October 2023–December 2024
  • UK retail sales growth during the 2024 holiday season, broken down by sector and month
  • Major UK grocery and nonfood retailers’ sales results for holiday 2024 vs. holiday 2023

Companies mentioned in this research report include: Aldi, M&S, Next, Primark, Sainsbury’s, Tesco

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