Our trackers show where the retail market is moving and how it compares across places and indicators, from the BRC’s monthly headlines down to individual constituencies. Use them to benchmark your performance, brief colleagues, support planning and turn any series into your own charts, ready to export to Excel. They bring together the BRC’s own industry monitors and official government data.
Monitor Tracker
The Monitor Tracker covers the national picture from the BRC’s own monitors, tracking retail sales, shop prices, footfall and consumer sentiment month by month. You can view it quarterly or annually and build your own charts with up to eight series side by side.
Local Tracker
The Local Tracker zooms into the sub-national story, mapping retail’s contribution to local economies across five themes (economic output, employment, business rates, business counts and pay), from nations and regions down to individual Westminster constituencies.
Economic Tracker
The Economic Tracker sets retail in its wider context, drawing on the ONS, the Bank of England, the OBR, the Treasury and the IMF to cover inflation by product category, retail jobs and pay, trade flows, and official and City forecasts side by side.
Footfall Tracker
The Footfall Tracker goes deeper into shopper visits, cutting the BRC-Sensormatic data by high streets, retail parks and shopping centres, and ranking every nation and English region side by side.
Shop Price Tracker
The Shop Price Tracker does the same for prices on the shelf, breaking shop price inflation down across food and non-food categories.