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Features delivers in-depth coverage of the people, brands, and trends shaping the UK retail landscape. This section offers detailed reports, case studies, and interviews exploring innovation, strategy, and performance across high street, ecommerce, and luxury sectors. Retail Sector’s Features coverage provides retail leaders, managers, and suppliers with contextual insight into business transformation, consumer behaviour, and the evolving commercial environment driving long-term success.

Features

Features delivers in-depth coverage of the people, brands, and trends shaping the UK retail landscape. This section offers detailed reports, case studies, and interviews exploring innovation, strategy, and performance across high street, ecommerce, and luxury sectors. Retail Sector’s Features coverage provides retail leaders, managers, and suppliers with contextual insight into business transformation, consumer behaviour, and the evolving commercial environment driving long-term success.

River Island’s predicament: High Court rescue buys time, not certainty

River Island has won a crucial lifeline after a High Court judge sanctioned its…

How AI is hijacking fashion retailers’ hard-won website traffic

For more than two decades, fashion and beauty brands have lived and died by the rules of…

Claire’s on the brink: can the chain avoid another collapse?

For decades, Claire’s has been the go-to destination for sparkly earrings, scrunchies and…

What Sycamore’s $10bn WBA takeover means for the UK high street

A $10bn (£7.4bn) takeover of Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) by Sycamore Partners has been…

What will separate supply chain winners and losers in the years to come

For decades, logistics and supply chain operations have been the unsung heroes of…

From darling to downfall: what went wrong at Seraphine

Seraphine, once the darling of maternity fashion, has collapsed into administration. Known…

Using AI to modernise CX in retail

The retail sector is at a crossroads. At a time when products and prices can often be easily…

Can generalist retailers survive in today’s retail environment?

Last month B&M posted results which saw its profit-before-tax fall 13.2% to £431m, with…

Retailers vs. returns: is cracking down costing brands more than it’s saving?

Asos became wrapped up in another controversy in late June after the online giant, which…

Has homeware become a fast fashion rite of passage?

This summer marks a bold new chapter in Primark’s retail journey, as the brand opens its…