Roundtable: Retailers reflect on ‘punch in stomach’ Budget, voucher vultures, and smarter discounting

Retail Gazette and Webloyalty bring retailers together to talk current trading, Budget impact, new discount and loyalty strategy, and the push towards greater profitability.
No sooner had retailers mapped out their plans for the 2025 than the Budget on 30 October changed things entirely.
Three weeks later 81 UK retail bosses added their signatures to a British Retail Consortium (BRC) letter to chancellor Rachel Reeves highlighting concerns about the “cost burden” the Budget placed on