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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.

Forecasting future staffing needs

While many retail businesses use cash-flow forecasting to optimise their trading…

The show must go on

Amazon’s Christmas 2020 advertising campaign perfectly captures the spirit of the nation…

Three ways retailers can set up retail success and fight fraud this holiday season

This year’s holiday season is set to be the most important retail period in living memory.…

The building blocks of app commerce

As the UK Government brings in a new wave of regulations to try to limit the spread of the…

Re-energising retail in 2021: Three challenges and one solution

The story of retail in 2020 is one of extreme contrasts. On the one hand, the Amazons, Asos…

Why we should be focussing on repurposing and not death of the high street

For several years, there has been a very evident and well publicised demise of local high…

Arcadia Collapse: What went wrong?

Once a titan of UK retail, the collapse of Arcadia 10 years ago would have come as a shock…

Planning for the new digital saltation

Digital evolution, over the last 10 years, has been a steady move from offline to online.…

The future of retail, where one size fits none

When writing this introduction, perhaps somewhat naively, I Googled ‘what was the most…

How businesses can optimise their Google Shopping in 2020

Google Shopping has always been a core part of most retailers’ PPC marketing strategy…