Britain’s retailers are bracing themselves for a troublesome Christmas buying and selling interval as hard-pressed shoppers react to a worsening value of residing disaster by chopping again on spending.
With essentially the most worthwhile interval of the 12 months for outlets and on-line shops approaching, two surveys out on Tuesday underlined the extent of the squeeze on family budgets brought on by the UK’s double-digit inflation fee.
The month-to-month snapshot of spending by Barclaycard, which accounts for half of debit and bank card…
