More Christmas continued – Page 22
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AnalysisAnalysis: Trading lessons and emerging trends from the golden quarter
What were the key trends to emerge from the all-important festive trading period? OC&C’s Tom Gladstone looks at the numbers.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Bunnings moves, Christmas fallout and Asda job cuts
The team discusses the week’s top retail news as Bunnings announces its plans to replace Homebase and Asda reveals job cuts.
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OpinionOpinion: Retail’s productivity conundrum is as pressing as ever
Christmas brought a continued acceleration of online migration: not perhaps an inflection point, but certainly a quickening of pace.
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OpinionOpinion: How retailers can learn from Christmas to boost their online offers
The BRC’s latest figures show that consumer spend has continued to move online – how can retailers adapt to this trend in the year ahead?
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OpinionLeo McKee: Adapt to survive the changing shape of retail
As trading patterns shift and consumer habits change, retailers must evolve with the times in order to ensure a successful future.
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AnalysisAnalysis: After a rollercoaster peak, will retail ever be the same again?
That was the question asked by Retail Week guest editor Theo Paphitis. We talk to retail chiefs to explore the changing shape of the peak.
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AnalysisInfographic: Marc Bolland on leaving M&S plus key facts and figures
The week in words and numbers, January 15, 2016: Bolland as he reveals he’s leaving M&S, number of Blue Inc stores set to close plus more.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Sainsbury's Home Retail bid, with guest Theo Paphitis
Theo Paphitis joins the Retail Week team to discuss Sainsbury’s Home Retail takeover attempt and Christmas trading updates.
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OpinionBlog: Reflecting on the success of delivering Christmas 2015
Hermes head of marketing Joanne Morley discusses a successful peak trading period for both retailers and the delivery giant.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Sainsbury's bid, M&S and Sports Direct with Tony Shiret
Tony Shiret joins the team to discuss Christmas trading results, Sainsbury’s bid for Home Retail and Sports Direct’s profit warning.
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OpinionOpinion: Consumer focus will mark out retail winners in 2016
While the golden quarter may have disappointed, 2016 is a new opportunity for retail to return to growth by focusing on consumer experience.
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VideoWatch: John Lewis’ Andy Street on Christmas trading results and 2016 plans
After recording a 5.1% rise in like-for-likes, John Lewis managing director Andy Street explains the impact of shifting trading patterns.
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DataChristmas trading 2015: Retailers battle it out for the top spot
Find out how retailers have performed during the critical Christmas trading period with our league table comparing like-for-like sales.
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OpinionNeil Saunders: US retailers had reasonable but not spectacular Christmas
Although it is early in the reporting period, initial results suggest the holiday season for US retailers was reasonable but not spectacular.
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OpinionOpinion: Sports Direct made headlines, but JD Sports was the winner in 2015
The new year has started like the old one ended, as controversial sports retailer Sports Direct continues to hit the headlines.
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OpinionOpinion: Christkindlmärkte over-hyped, overpriced and regrettably over here
When will cities realise that Christmas markets offer little to shoppers and don’t provide a boost for their permanent retailers?
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VideoThe Retail Week: 2015 in review and the key factors for 2016
News editor James Wilmore and executive editor George MacDonald are joined by BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson to discuss the year in retail.
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: The last-minute retail rush to Christmas
Retail Week cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on how last-minute Christmas shoppers are rushing to prepare for the big day next week.
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OpinionOpinion: Dixons Carphone flags changing shape of seasonal trading
The latest results from Dixons Carphone demonstrate how the retail landscape of the all-important golden quarter continues to shift.
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OpinionOpinion: How to cut through the noise and win consumer spend at Christmas
With less than two weeks till Christmas, retailers are vying for last-minute spend and one of the big differentiators is customer experience.