More on Me + Em – Page 3000
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Retail sales up in July
Retail sales volume unexpectedly jumped in July by 0.8 per cent, giving some respite to the UK’s struggling high street.
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Tesco goes live with online opticians
Tesco has launched an online optical prescription service to take advantage of the fast-growing eyecare market.
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M&S brings forward trading statement
Marks & Spencer has fuelled fears of a deeper downturn on the high street by bringing forward its next trading statement by a month.
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Netto launches non-food Sale
Discount grocer Netto will launch a discount bonanza for the end of August to drive shoppers to its stores.
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Boots UK shakes up top team
Boots UK – the pharmacy-led health and beauty retail arm of Alliance Boots – has rejigged its senior team to further accelerate the integration between the former Boots the Chemists and Alliance Pharmacy groups.
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GalleryThorntons – Kingston-upon-Thames
Thorntons gives a London suburban store a long awaited makeover.
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Cortefiel to launch in UK with Debenhams
Spanish fashion giant Cortefiel is to make its UK debut with an exclusive deal with Debenhams.
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Topshop implements call-forward system at flagship to beat queues
Topshop’s Oxford Circus flagship store has gone live with a call-forward system to minimise queues for customers.
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Scotts to speed up its order processing
Catalogue specialist Scotts & Co is to implement an order-processing system from Kewill to support its direct dispatch business model.
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Vodafone to up service with raft of technology initiatives
Vodafone is working on several IT projects to help its retail teams improve customer service.
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Wyevale picks COO
Wyevale Garden Centres has promoted Andrew Livingston to chief operating officer.
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Opinion
Enemy at the gate?
The results of the National Gateway Security Survey released this morning show that securing networks against external attacks is still the top priority for most companies, despite evidence clearly highlighting the continuing risk of internal attacks.
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Asda slashes pay-as-you-go tariff
Asda has unveiled a new flat-rate pay-as-you-go mobile phone tariff, which it claims will make it the cheapest service of its kind in the UK.
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Lords slam fast-fashion culture
Shoppers should stop buying throwaway clothes that wear out quickly and are hard to recycle, according to a House of Lords report that attacks fast fashion.
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Tesco price ads banned
Tesco has been rapped over the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading the public in two of its ads comparing prices with Asda and Morrisons.
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House of Fraser sales climb
Department store operator House of Fraser has posted upbeat first-half results, with sales up 2.9 per cent in the 26 weeks to July 26.
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Online sales hit £4.8 billion in July
Wet weather drove more shoppers online in July, when e-tail sales reached 4.8 billion for the month.
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Woolies chairman willing to discuss Baugur deal
Woolworths chairman Richard North is open to discussions about selling the variety store group to Icelandic investor Baugur and entrepreneur Malcolm Walker.
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Discounters triumph as shoppers trade down
Asda, Morrisons and the discount food retailers are experiencing a mini sales boom, as rising commodity prices, shoppers trading down and supermarket price wars combine to drive sales, according to two sets of figures from market analysts TNS Worldpanel and Nielsen.