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CartoonRetail cartoon: M&S bosses face shareholder shootout
Patrick Blower’s take on Gareth-Southgate-waistcoat-supplier Marks & Spencer’s AGM, which took place at Wembley Stadium this week
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NewsWestminster council unveils Oxford Street investment plan
Westminster City Council has agreed an investment plan to “transform the Oxford Street district into a global, iconic destination” without the pedestrianisation of the main thoroughfare.
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NewsSainsbury's hires RSA chair Scicluna as Tyler exits
Sainsbury’s has appointed RSA Insurance Group and Portland Estates chairman Martin Scicluna as its chair, replacing David Tyler.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Five things we learned from the M&S AGM
Marks & Spencer’s AGM took place at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, as chairman Archie Norman addressed the retailer’s shareholders en masse for the first time.
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NewsB&Q ploughs £100m into price cuts across 2,000 products
B&Q has invested £100m into price cuts across a swathe of core products in a bid to lure new shoppers and reduce its reliance on promotions.
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OpinionOpinion: Click and collect can be an ‘experience’
Whichever way you cut it, clicking and collecting has to be the ultimate non-experience that can take place in a store.
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Retail VoiceHow do customers really feel about in-store tech?
Simon Fahie, managing director of global technology at ByBox, shares insights from the company’s latest research into shopper relationships with in-store technology.
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NewsHarvey Nichols launches perfume concession with Sniph
Swedish perfume subscription business Sniph has launched its first UK concession in luxury department store Harvey Nichols.
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NewsPoundworld to close 25 stores, axing 242 jobs
Poundworld is closing 25 of its 355 branches this week including stores in Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham.
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OpinionOpinion: Tesco will be poorer while Wilson recuperates
Sometimes bolts from the blue strike at random and without warning which put business, and life in general, into perspective.
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NewsMountain Warehouse sells £45m stake to ramp up expansion
Mountain Warehouse has sold a 20% stake in the business to Inflexion Private Equity Partners.
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NewsUK retail sales rise, buoyed by football fever
UK retail sales rose in June as shoppers snapped up big match essentials, but non-food sectors such as furniture and footwear continued to suffer.
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NewsOcado swings to half-year loss as sales rise
Ocado has recorded a loss at the half-year mark as the online grocer ploughed investment into its proposition following a spate of international partnerships.
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NewsTesco UK boss Wilson diagnosed with cancer, steps down
Tesco’s UK and Ireland chief executive Charles Wilson will step down from his role this month following a throat cancer diagnosis in April.
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Retail VoiceTop 30 international retailers: why localisation is vital
While delivering exceptional customer services at every opportunity should be second nature in a home market, what becomes challenging is fulfilling this abroad.
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NewsTOFS CVA is approved, 290 jobs are at risk
The Original Factory Shop has been given the green light by creditors to axe over a tenth of its store estate, Retail Week can reveal.
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OpinionOpinion: Mothercare boss has won the battle, not the war
Mothercare is on the latest stage of its torturous journey, lining up cash to fund its restructuring and putting one of its arms into administration.
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NewsPoundworld's founder drops his rescue bid
Poundworld founder Chris Edwards has ditched talks to rescue the business, pushing more than 5,000 jobs closer to the precipice.
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DataRetail weather: Summer sun, hot and dry
The retail weather forecast from Saturday July 14 to Friday July 20, 2018: Sunny, dry and hot all week for most
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OpinionPrime Day is Amazon's key to long-term sales growth
Amazon promises its Prime Day 2018 will be its most “epic”, but it is also crucial to its long-term growth, writes Howard Lake.