News and Press
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Amazon ‘roll-up’ businesses raise billions in fight for ascendancy
According to Fable Data, which tracks credit card transactions, UK online retail spend is down about 40 percentage points since non-essential shops were allowed to reopen on April 12. This compares with an increase in spend of 45 percentage points for physical stores over the same period.
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Britons are persisting with splashing the cash, say economists
In the week to August 15, bank transactions tracked by Fable Data recorded spending 7 per cent above the same period last year, when it was boosted by the government’s “eat out to help out” meal subsidy scheme.
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Economists pinpoint UK local authorities in greatest need of support post-Covid-19 – new research
Academics at the University of Nottingham partnered with Experian, Fable Data and Huq to source data from consumer and company credit files, transaction-level data on consumer spending and geolocation. These granular data sources allow the researchers to track, at the local authority level, consumer and business financial distress; measures of how much people travel; and…