All Video articles – Page 9
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VideoWill December election spell retail blues or boom during peak?
A divided nation is heading to the polls for the first December general election in almost 100 years. Seasoned Peel Hunt retail analyst John Stevenson joins Retail Week executive editor George MacDonald to discuss the implications for peak trading and the industry’s wider Christmas prospects.
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VideoRetail jobs wipeout – can new roles replace those lost?
More than 80,000 retail jobs were lost in the third quarter of this year and employment has now fallen for almost four years in a row.
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VideoWill Christmas 2019 be ho-ho-ho or humbug for retailers?
With some retail leaders preparing for ‘the worst Christmas since Woolworths collapsed’ in 2008, the team debate if businesses will be full of festive cheer or fear by the end of 2019.
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VideoIs Hays Travel bonkers to buy 555 Thomas Cook stores?
After Hays Travel bought more than 500 Thomas Cook stores, potentially saving thousands of jobs, following its recent collapse, the team debate if the move is savvy or reckless, and what the deal means for the wider high street.
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VideoMicrosoft’s Shelley Bransten: ‘Stores are alive and well’
Shelley Bransten, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, retail and CPG, on why stores are being reimagined and remain an important part of any retailer’s strategy, and the cultural changes the tech giant has made to increase diversity in its workforce.
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VideoInsights on tomorrow’s retail from Tech. 2019
The team picks their highlights from this year’s Tech. 2019 festival, including a debate on whether the mobile phone is ‘dead’.
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VideoKroger data science chief: ‘Innovation doesn’t happen at the top’
Scott Crawford, head of ‘Enable the Science’ at 84.51° – US supermarket giant Kroger’s data and science company – tells us how it empowers staff on the front line to take the lead on innovation and make things happen with new ideas and truly disruptive technology.
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VideoThredUp co-founder on being the ‘sustainability solution for the whole closet’
Chris Homer, co-founder and chief technology officer of US online clothes resale platform ThredUp, talks about working with retailers to help them have a role in the circular economy, and says coming to the UK is a matter of ‘when not if’.
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VideoWhat Kingfisher is doing to attract the best tech talent
Kingfisher digital director Andy Wolfe tells Tech. that a retailer’s social purpose is key to attracting tech talent, and he sets out what needs to be done to encourage more women into tech and engineering roles in the industry.
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VideoGraze’s boss on taking its ‘lab’ technology to FMCG giant Unilever
Anthony Fletcher, chief executive of healthy snack retailer Graze, now part of FMCG titan Unilever, says the tech community is the number one asset of being based in London and tells us why he’s excited about its latest venture, Graze Labs.
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VideoShop Direct tech boss on transforming the business with ‘agile squads’
Andy Burton, group chief technology officer at Shop Direct, tells us how the online retailer is becoming more agile and innovative in how it works, how to get staff to buy in, and what retail has in common with the gambling industry.
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VideoPicnic’s CTO on how the innovative online grocer is growing at speed
The chief technology officer of fast-growing Dutch online grocer Picnic, Daniel Gebler, tells us how it is ‘taking friction away from customers’ to make supermarket shopping ‘simple, affordable and fun for everybody’.
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VideoJD.com's vice president on how it is creating ‘boundary-less retail’
JD.com vice president and general manager of JD Retail Solutions Chenkai Ling explains how the Chinese ecommerce giant is redefining itself as a technology and service enterprise, and how management got a wake-up call to put consumers first, not numbers.
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VideoIs Coupe’s strategy enough to get Sainsbury’s back on track?
As Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe unveils his strategic “tweaks”, the Retail Week team ask whether evolution rather than revolution will get the grocer firing on all cylinders again.
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VideoTech. Cast: Beringea chief investment officer on AI and omnichannel
Karen McCormick discusses how ingrained AI will be in what we do in the future, omnichannel retail growth and how Tech. brings together all within the retail ecosystem to discuss the exciting things happening for the future.
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VideoWhy Next's boss thinks no-deal Brexit will mean lower prices
As Next unveils its half-year results, the team discuss boss Lord Wolfson’s assertion that the clothing retailer would be able to cut prices by 2% in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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VideoTech. Cast: AO boss John Roberts talks tech talent
Ao.com founder and boss John Roberts discusses the importance of recruiting tech talent and explains why his business has signed up as one of the Tech. festival’s retail partners this year.
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VideoWatch: Has Waitrose lost its battle with Ocado before it’s begun?
As Waitrose cuts ties with Ocado replacement TDP just four months after joining forces, the team - along with special guest Bryan Roberts - debate if the grocer made an error in hiring an unknown partner in the first place and whether it can stick to its goal of “trebling the size of its online grocery business to £1bn over the next three years”.
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VideoWatch: Can Flannels clean up for Sports Direct?
As Sports Direct opens its long-awaited Flannels flagship on Oxford Street, the team debate if the £10m store is a wise investment or an expensive distraction from the group’s much-publicised problems.
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VideoWatch: Would FTSE 100 relegation spell disaster for M&S?
As Marks & Spencer teeters on the brink of relegation from the FTSE 100 for the first time in its history, the team discuss what impact it could have on the high street bellwether.