Retail state of the nation

Following last week’s pre-close update from Hyprop a few analysts have turned a little more bullish on the consumer as it revealed footfall is back to pre-pandemic levels and with masks now a thing of the past there is some emerging optimism. But that needs to be tempered against last week’s three decades low consumer confidence number. To talk about this Michael Avery is joined by Jon-Jon Emary, Retail Strategy Lead: NielsenIQ Retail; Chris Gilmour, Independent Analyst & Mongezi Mtati, Brand Strategist: Rogerwilco