All Policy & legal articles – Page 35
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NewsShop vacancies fall for third quarter in a row
The national store vacancy rate has improved for the third quarter in a row but is still above the pre-pandemic level.
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NewsJD Sports confident of delivering record profit and sales
JD Sports has said it expects to deliver a second straight year of record profits and revenues despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis ahead of its AGM later today
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NewsTransitional relief will cost retailers £1bn as Frasers boss calls for ‘hard and deep’ cuts
The British Retail Consortium has warned transitional relief could cost retail £1bn over the next three years, as Frasers boss Michael Murray called for drastic government action.
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AnalysisDeep dive: After Bank of England’s horror warning, is your business recession-ready?
Soaring energy prices, growing inflation and nose-diving consumer confidence present a perfect storm for retailers in 2022. What can be done to weather it?
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Retail VoiceTips for approaching innovations using consumer data
Now more than ever, retailers are faced with a wide array of opportunities to use customer data to achieve their commercial objectives. RPC explains that by spotting and assessing key risks early, organisations will be better equipped to avoid breaches of data protection law that may lead to costly fines or claims, failed projects and reputational damage.
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AnalysisFive ways to adapt to changing consumer behaviour amid cost-of-living crisis
Retail veteran Peter Williams and executives from Pandora, Bookshop.org and REN Clean Skincare reveal how they are witnessing spending habits shift – and what this means for their strategies – ahead of appearing at Consumer Week
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Opinion‘Retailer focus is on how to help customers caught in cost-of-living crunch’
At a time of unprecedented national and global challenges, retailers are determined to support their people and their customers, writes British Retail Consortium chief executive Helen Dickinson.
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OpinionBusiness rates and online sales tax – reviews and rows but what hope of a resolution?
As retailers battle the increasing costs of doing business, they still bear one of their longest-suffered and biggest burdens – business rates.
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OpinionTheo Paphitis: ‘After Boris, we need a leader who’ll support business, not f**k business’
The to-do list for the next prime minister is long and urgent – they must be a serious candidate capable of governing like a grown-up, writes Theo Paphitis.
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NewsAmazon faces CMA probe over treatment of third-party sellers
Amazon is being investigated by the UK’s competition watchdog over its treatment of third-party sellers that use its online marketplace.
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NewsAsda, Asos and Amazon warn online sales tax could do more harm than good
Executives from major retailers met with financial secretary to the treasury Lucy Frazer last week to warn of the potential impact of an online sales tax.
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Opinion‘Refusal to allow M&S to modernise Marble Arch will further diminish West End’s appeal’
Retail businesses, shops and the locations where they trade cannot be preserved in aspic. But that is what opponents of Marks & Spencer’s plans to redevelop its flagship Marble Arch store seem to want.
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NewsAsda chair Rose urges VAT cut to combat cost of living crunch
Asda chair Lord Stuart Rose believes the government should consider reducing VAT or further cutting fuel tax to help ’kill’ inflation, which is prompting shoppers to limit their spending.
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NewsM&S ‘bewildered and disappointed’ by Gove’s Marble Arch intervention
Marks & Spencer has reacted angrily to Michael Gove’s decision to call in the planned redevelopment of its flagship Marble Arch premises.
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Opinion‘Cost-of-living tsar appointment smacks more of spin than substance’
As the punishing weight of inflation dominates daily life – and looks as if it will continue to for a long time yet – the government’s latest attempt to address the issue is the appointment of a cost-of-living tsar.
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NewsOxford Street candy stores investigated over tax affairs
Thirty American-style candy stores on London’s Oxford Street are under investigation for allegedly failing to pay £7.9m in business rates.
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NewsGovernment appoints cost-of-living tsar as inflation climbs
The government has appointed Just Eat founder David Buttress to work with companies including grocers to support consumers as the cost-of-living crunch bites.
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Opinion‘CMA will act to protect shoppers from price fixing’
The Competition and Markets Authority receives more complaints about price fixing than any other infringement of competition law, says its senior director of antitrust Ann Pope – and it will not hesitate to clamp down on offenders
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NewsJD Sports faces CMA fine for ‘cartel activity’ on alleged football shirt price-fixing
JD Sports is facing a hefty fine from the competition watchdog after admitting to “cartel activity” by fixing the retail price of football shirts.
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NewsIncidents of violent crime and abuse of retail staff trebled during pandemic
Incidents of abuse and violent crime towards frontline retail workers trebled during the first year of the pandemic, despite vast swathes of bricks-and-mortar stores being closed.