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AnalysisRetail Week's 12 days of Christmas: 12 truths every retailer knows at Christmas
The Golden Quarter is crucially important for retailers – but it’s not a particuarly easy time for staff. Here are 12 things every retailer knows to be true about the peak period.
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OpinionComment: Bonmarché has driven sales by knowing its audience
Bonmarché first-half profits and sales surged as it kept focused on its core customers despite being hit by warm autumn weather.
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AnalysisInternational news analysis: Is Black Friday a Thanksgiving turkey?
Black Friday sales figures in America have declined from previous years. So is it unwise to put too much stock in the retail event?
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InterviewBonmarché: Q&A with chief executive Beth Butterwick
As Bonmarché posts soaring half-year profits, we speak to boss Beth Butterwick about its growth and how it plans to offset milder weather.
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OpinionComment: Black Friday and Singles Day improve the retail calendar
Seasonal retail promotions imported from overseas can be tricky for retailers but are still a great way to engage customers.
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AnalysisVideo report: Behind the scenes of Black Friday at Asda Wembley
Shoppers descended on Asda’s Wembley superstore to take part in Black Friday as Retail Week visited to film the good, the bad and the ugly.
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OpinionBlog: The beginning of Christmas and that (Black) Friday feeling
Martijn de Lange, operations director at Hermes explains how the company is working to ensure retailers meet their customers’ needs throughout this festive season.
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AnalysisInfographic: Black Friday grows slower than Cyber Monday despite the hype
The hype around Black Friday has reached fever pitch but the US-import is still growing slower than Cyber Monday when it comes to sales.
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Black Friday and Cyber Monday boost Christmas rush
Retail Week’s cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on retailers’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals increasing the Christmas retail rush.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What will Christmas 2014 look like for retailers?
In the run-up to Christmas, how will consumer behaviour and attitudes affect trading? Retail Week research explores 2014’s festive spending.
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OpinionComment: Black Friday is here to stay, for better or worse
Black Friday looks set to be a fixture of the UK retail calendar following Amazon and Asda’s US led success with the trend in previous years.
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OpinionComment: How sustainable is Black Friday as a retail event?
Black Friday is a big date in the retail calendar. But as sales start earlier and discounting becomes normal will sales fatigue kick in?
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OpinionComment: Cyber Monday will be bigger than Black Friday in the UK
As Black Friday approaches, Amazon and others are preparing for Cyber Monday, perhaps the biggest day in the UK online retail calendar.
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OpinionComment: Online shoppers are ready for a connected Christmas
With Christmas fast approaching, the wonderful and sometimes weird internet of things will change how people live and shop.
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OpinionComment: The fulfilment essentials for a successful Black Friday
Collect+ chief executive Neil Ashworth explains how retailers should prepare for the fast-approaching Black Friday opportunity
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AnalysisThe 12 trends of Christmas: this festive season's big themes
Christmas is fast approaching and retailers are preparing for a frenetic shopping season. Retail Week looks at the themes that will dominate this Christmas.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Super Thursday could revitalise high street bookshops
Super Thursday could give physical book sales a massive boost as shoppers become increasingly aware of the day dreamt up by book publishers.
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OpinionComment: Retailers are being blinded by big data
One of the most sensible and thought-provoking things that I heard last year was “you can’t use all the data that you’ve got and there is a fine line between personalised and creepy”.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Dixons boss Sebastian James on the electricals retailer's 'weird' Christmas
Dixons achieved strong sales during a “lively” Christmas. Chief executive Sebastian James talks to Retail Week.
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OpinionComment: Retail's New Year hangover
Before Christmas the UK retail sector was in relatively high spirits. After a mixed year forecasts of 3.5% growth promised a record-breaking December in which sales could top £40bn. However, in the cold light of New Year many are facing a reality check.