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Comment features expert perspectives and thought leadership from across the UK retail industry. This section includes opinion pieces, analysis, and commentary from senior retail executives, analysts, and sector specialists on the commercial, strategic, and operational forces shaping retail. Retail Sector’s Comment coverage explores issues such as consumer behaviour shifts, technology adoption, sustainability, regulation, and leadership — providing retail professionals with authoritative insight to inform decision-making and strategic planning.

Comment

Comment features expert perspectives and thought leadership from across the UK retail industry. This section includes opinion pieces, analysis, and commentary from senior retail executives, analysts, and sector specialists on the commercial, strategic, and operational forces shaping retail. Retail Sector’s Comment coverage explores issues such as consumer behaviour shifts, technology adoption, sustainability, regulation, and leadership — providing retail professionals with authoritative insight to inform decision-making and strategic planning.

The way we feed our pets is changing, and retailers need to respond

By Anja Madsen, chief operating officer of retail at Pets at Home

The strategic gamble behind the Primark demerger

ABF’s decision to separate Primark from its food business reflects growing pressure on…

Why the ‘loyalty gap’ is a retailer’s biggest e-commerce growth potential

By Martin Harper, co-founder and chief technology officer of Quickfire Digital

Keeping retail standing is a team game

By James Woodard, director at Hartnell Taylor Cook

Why British exporters are rethinking US fulfilment in the wake of de minimis removal

By Dan Cate, founder and chief executive of SoldThrough

How intentional consumers are shifting the retail battleground

By Dan Edelman, UK general manager of merchant services at American Express

Why retailers are moving from mass perks to precision loyalty

By Charlie Casey, chief executive and co-founder of LoyaltyLion

Pedestrianising Oxford Circus: how retail can capitalise on London’s summer of sport

By Felicity Pogson, director of retail at Seen Studios

How hard will British retailers be knocked by the Iran conflict?

As the US and Israel’s war in Iran reaches its 13th day and vessels are bombed in the Strait…

If the AI fits, design it: what ASOS’ move signals about the next era of retail

By Andy Haley, chief executive at Sullivan and Stanley