Getting the Right Change – retail strategy for Scotland

Footnotes

1 Business Register Employment Survey (BRES) 2020

2 Scottish Annual Business Statistics (SABS) 2019

3 Scottish Retail Consortium Report: What Next – The Future of Scottish Retail

4 Scottish Government economy statistics - Estimates of Monthly GDP

5 myUKmailbox blog – The top 50 online shops in the UK

6 Scottish Government Small Business Survey Scotland: 2019

7 Fair Work Convention report – Fair Work in Scotland (December 2020)

8 An example is The British Retail Consortium’s Diversity and Inclusion Charter

9 Joseph Rowntree Foundation report – Laying the foundations for a Scotland without poverty

10 Defined as enterprises with 250 or more employees

11 Reshaping Retail – How ethics and sustainability are changing retail’s ecosystem by Barclays Corporate, Feb 2022.

12 Scottish Government – Programme for Government

13 Scottish Government – Place Principle: introduction

14 Sustrans Scotland / Living Streets report – The Pedestrian Pound

15 Defined as Section G (Sic 45, 46, 47) BRES 2020 via Nomis

16 SIC 47 only, BRES 2020 via Nomis

17 BRES and SABS contain different estimates of employment levels by sector. SABS draws employment data from BRES, but only for the business units that are surveyed to generate SABS. Nonetheless, SABS is still considered to contain a robust estimate of trends in sector-level employment.

18 Retail’s contribution peaked in 2014 with turnover marginally exceeding £27bn and GVA £7bn.

19 Scottish Government Estimates of Monthly GDP, Economy statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

20 Scottish Businesses (Provided Internally)

21 SIC Classification: Section G (Sic 45, 46, 47) UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

22 ASHE (2019)

23 Fair Work Convention report – Fair Work in Scotland (December 2020)

24 Fair-Work-in-Scotland-Report.pdf (fairworkconvention.scot)

25 Happy employees and their impact on firm performance | LSE Business Review

26 The links between low productivity, low pay and in-work poverty | JRF

27 SIC Classification: Section G (Sic 45, 46, 47) UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

28 Digital Economy Business Survey 2021: findings – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

29 Annual Population Survey (APS) Jan-Dec 2020.

30 Annual Population Survey Oct 2020 to Sep 2021 data, ONS

31 SIC Classification: 47 UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

32 SIC Classification: Section G (Sic 45, 46, 47) UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

33 Scotland’s Labour Market: People, Places and Regions – background tables and charts – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) (Industry Tables, 2020/2021)

34 UKCES Employer Skills Survey 2015: Scotland toolkit – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

35 Resolution Foundation

36 SIC Classification: Section G (Sic 45, 46, 47) UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

37 Retail sales, Great Britain – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk), seasonally adjusted.

38 Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey (BICS) results – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

39 ONS internet retail sales index

40 SIC Classification: 47 UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

41 Wrigley N., and Lambiri D. (University of Southampton), British High Street: from crisis to recovery: a comprehensive review of the evidence, 2015, p65

42 Local Data Company, Retail and leisure trends report

43 There are numerous publications on changing consumer behaviours – for example Sustainability & Consumer Behaviour 2021 | Deloitte UK The Eco-wakening is here. (panda.org)

44 Management_Practice_and_Productivity.pdf (lse.ac.uk), see also Bloom.dvi worldmanagementsurvey.org)