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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.

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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.

Coronavirus and the Retail Property Sector

Coronavirus continues to spread across the world and many countries have now established…

Coronavirus changing UK’s shopping habits, survey reveals

A new weekly survey has revealed how UK consumers’ relationships with a range of sectors is…

The minimum wage increase is about to hit – and it beggars belief

As if to bang the final nail into the coffin himself, we can only assume the Treasury’s top…

What are your legal rights if your job has been affected by COVID-19?

Ever since the coronavirus outbreak gathered speed, life in the UK has largely been put on…

Covid 19: The future health of the high street

The health of the high street is up for debate now more than ever. If retailers were…

Brighthouse set to call in administrators

Rent-to-own home furnishings brand Brighthouse is reportedly set to call in administrators,…

What we know about furlough leave and the CJRS 

HMRC published details of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) on 26.3.20 which are…

Social shopping is all the rage – but at what cost for retailers?

In recent years, social commerce has become a lucrative way for retailers to easily access…

Preventing inevitable recession from becoming depression

The global economy is heading into a recession, initially at least a pretty severe one. The…

Keeping shop workers safe through Covid-19

This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised workers across the UK to work from home if…