Amazon
This coverage examines Amazon’s operations, strategy, and influence within the UK retail market. Reporting highlights e-commerce growth, logistics and fulfilment, technology initiatives, financial results, product innovation, and leadership decisions. Focused on commercial impact and competitive dynamics, it offers insights for retail professionals navigating digital transformation and multi-channel competition.
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May- 2019 -29 MayAdvice
Payments: the key to personalisation in retail
Retailers are cost-cutting, trialling customer policies and experimenting with tech such as smart mirrors in the aim of securing their future. Cutting through the noise and getting through to customers is critical, but also easier said than done. You just need to look at ASOS updating their extended returns to…
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29 MayAdvice
Disrupting physical: Who needs a store?
Only a few months ago, I was discussing the longevity of the high street with an e-commerce director at a luxury furniture retailer. Recalling the closing down sales in my local House of Fraser, I suggested it was just the beginning of an industry-wide revolution. His response surprised me. “It’s…
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29 MayOnline & Digital
MacKenzie Bezos to donate half of her $37bn fortune to charity
MacKenzie Bezos has announced she will donate half of her nearly $37bn (£29bn) fortune to charitable causes. It comes after the announcement of her divorce with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in February of this year, after a 25-year marriage. In April Jeff agreed to an eye-watering divorce settlement of around…
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24 MayAnalysis
Pivoting on experience to revive the UK high-street
It’s no secret that it’s a troubling time for the UK high-street. The recent news that Boots might be considering store closures globally following “its most difficult quarter” since the retailer’s formation is the latest brushstroke of a much larger picture. Global Data, the market research firm, points the reason…
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17 MayComment
How Making Tax Digital is going to help the retail sector
Shop closures are an all too familiar scene. A recent study by The Guardian found that English and Welsh town centres have lost 8% of their shops on average since 2013 (equating to 40 shops per town centre). While the sector is riding the waves of a storm, the digitisation…
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17 MayOnline & Digital
Amazon invests in Deliveroo
Deliveroo has announced it has received $575m (£450m) in investment from online retailer, Amazon. The investment makes Amazon the largest investor in Deliveroo’s shared funding round, which the app hopes will allow it to invest heavily in expanding the company’s tech team at its UK Headquarters, expand further to reach…
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14 MayHigh Street
Amazon partners with Next for click and collect service
Next and Amazon today announced Next’s participation in Amazon Counter – a new network of pick up points that allows customers to collect their Amazon orders in-store. Pick up from a Counter location at the fashion retailer is available from hundreds of stores across the UK and on millions of…
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10 MayAdvice
How to put the consumer first in modern digitally disrupted retail space
The retail industry has changed drastically over the last 12 months. The failure of retail brands like Toys R’ Us and BHS are just the most recent reminders that digital disruption continues to take its toll on the unprepared. The way we are shopping has changed, as have our expectations…
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8 MayAdvice
Why shopping centres must now focus on experience
The traditional shopping centre model is currently undergoing a seismic shift. I’ve no doubt that those centres that will thrive in the coming decades will employ an entirely customer centric experiential model. As the line between retail and leisure becomes increasingly blurred, shopping centres will need to evolve from being…
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2 May
What can the West learn from Amazon China’s failure?
Amazon China did not do enough to build on brand reputation, and it is only until they can appease the demands of an increasingly connected and experience-orientated consumer base that they have a chance of challenging the giants in the East. For native businesses in the East, the rapidly developing…
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