The National Skills Academy for Retail provides access to consistent, high quality training for retail businesses, their employees and future workforce, delivered through a network of quality-marked retail skills shops Consisting of a network of retail skills shops in shopping centres and high streets across the country - as well as a number of virtual skills shops - the National Skills Academy for Retail offers a host of services. These include business support for retailers of all sizes and in any location, a consistent national approach for retail training and the provision of authoritative labour market intelligence.The National Skills Academy for Retail is part of People 1st, the leading skills and workforce development charity for employers in the hospitality, tourism, leisure, travel, passenger transport and retail industries.