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VideoWatch: Retailers must take responsible approach to consumer finance boom, experts warn
Consumer demand for finance options has remained consistently high this year, but retailers must assess customers’ ability to afford these options, experts have warned.
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GalleryIn pictures: The retailers nailing the (Covid) Christmas experience
Christmas is looking quite different this year but retailers are innovating to keep the festive spirit alive both online and in-store. Retail Week highlights the retailers pulling out all the stops.
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AnalysisRetail Horizon: What a post-pandemic consumer outlook means for retail
Inclusion, conscious consumption, community and togetherness will light the way as we return to a more normal lifestyle.
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Retail VoiceAgile fulfilment in retail: how Fenwick moved quickly to navigate the crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic presented huge challenges for retailers. With issues around reopening, enforcing social distancing and fluctuating lockdown rules, the industry has definitely had a tough time over the last nine months.
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NewsBrexit: Supermarkets given grace period on Northern Ireland supply checks
UK supermarkets will be allowed to continue supplying Northern Ireland stores without checks at the border, deal or no deal, from January 1.
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NewsGovernment extends commercial evictions ban until April
The government is extending the moratorium on commercial tenant evictions until March 31, 2021.
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NewsMarks & Spencer launches retail’s first data technician apprenticeship programme
Marks & Spencer has established the retail industry’s first apprenticeship scheme for data technicians as it pushes forward with its ambitions to become a digital-first business.
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NewsTesco gets green light to complete sale of Asia business
Tesco is poised to complete the £8bn sale of its Thai and Malaysian business after buyer CP Retail Development Company rubber-stamped the deal.
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NewsPrimark’s Paul Marchant: Anyone who thinks shopping in person is over is naïve
Primark boss Paul Marchant has launched a passionate defence of physical retail and called for more investment to be ploughed into Britain’s high streets in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
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NewsCompetition watchdog to investigate Issa brothers’ Asda acquisition
The competition watchdog has launched a probe into the Issa brothers’ £6.8bn takeover of Asda.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Who will be retail’s winners and losers this Christmas?
It’s been a highly unusual year for retail, which has not been without its casualties. As ‘non-essential’ stores emerge from the second lockdown and shoppers swap Christmas parties for working from home and smaller gatherings, which retailers are set to reap the benefits of an unorthodox festive season?
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OpinionPeter Williams: ‘The job losses are awful, but fashion needs a cull’
I joined the retail industry rather a long time ago – in 1987 to be precise, at Freemans, the traditional mailorder business that produced a 1,000-page catalogue twice a year.
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Retail VoiceAlways do what you’ve always done? Expect to see what you’ve always seen from your marketing
As the end of 2020 approaches, I can’t help but wonder how the Queen will sum it up in her holiday season speech. ‘Anno Peculiare’ anyone? (1).
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Retail VoiceUnderstanding online customer behaviour is the key to a successful 2021
This year is nearly at an end and, while retailers are hoping for the best during peak, the attention of many is now shifting to what 2021 might hold.
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AnalysisHow can retailers mitigate the £5bn returns headache?
RWRC’s Supply Chain 2021 report looks at how the coronavirus crisis has exacerbated returns rates and why it is imperative retailers act now to protect their bottom line
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AnalysisThe Big Question: Should retailers close their stores on Boxing Day this year?
After a tough year, retailers including Pets at Home, Beaverbrooks, Marks & Spencer and Asda have decided to give their colleagues Boxing Day off as a thank you. Retail leaders offer their view on whether the rest of the sector should follow their example.
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NewsGrocers record highest sales on record in November
Supermarkets reported the biggest month of sales on record in November as shoppers stole a march on Christmas shopping.
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NewsStudio Retail prepares for sale as profits boom
Online value retailer Studio has announced plans to explore its sale options as profits and sales soared during the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsJoules trading ‘ahead of expectations’ despite overall sales decline
Joules has recorded a strong uplift in ecommerce sales in its first half despite lost in-store sales throughout the lockdown periods.
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NewsNovember retail sales dampened by lockdown store closures
Retail sales growth slowed in November as tighter government restrictions forced shoppers online.