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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.

Retail faces multiple challenges – A key one is fixing the data layer

As the UK consumer battles rising inflation, interest rates, scary heating bills and even…

How retailers can win customers in a more challenging climate

As we enter this critical period of the year for retailers, they are faced with a series of…

Sephora’s return to the UK could spell competition for Boots

The French cosmetics retailer, Sephora, has recently returned to the United Kingdom with the…

How can retail companies prepare for a more scrupulous festive season?

After two years of Covid-impacted festive periods, any hopes that the retail industry had…

Will Patagonia spark an eco revolution?

Becoming net zero and sustainable are some of the top priorities for global companies today,…

Could Selfridges succeed where others have failed?

UK high streets have been on the decline for many years now, having lost 83% of all…

Made.com for sale: what went wrong?

Do Royal Warrants still hold value for retailers?

British monarchs have been issuing Royal Warrants since the 15th Century. These warrants…

Inflation, fast fashion and how to keep shoppers in a recession

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), inflation is back in the single…

Is the rise in distressed M&As set to continue?

The number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals targeting UK retailers has increased in…