UK Retail Sales Monitor Since its inception over a decade ago, the Retail Sales Monitor (RSM) has become the premier indicator of weekly and monthly sales performance available to the industry.

The RSM is viewed as the most respected and trusted monitor of like-for-like and total retail sales in the UK, and provides participating retailers with weekly and monthly retail sales figures, and is based on sales data from multiple and SME retailers. They complete weekly sales returns by value in both like-for-like and total formats for 12 retail product categories. For the convenience of grocery retailers, the food and drink data is submitted by the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) via their Market Track scheme covering the entire grocery sector.

The RSM currently represents approximately 60% of UK retail sales value. This is then re-weighted according to the Office of National Statistics to cover the entire industry.

The RSM scheme is sponsored and administered by KPMG. With an in-depth understanding of the issues affecting the retail industry and their ongoing work with the UK's most innovative retailers, KPMG are ideally suited to administer the RSM.