Christmas
This coverage explores the critical Christmas trading period in the UK retail sector, focusing on sales performance, promotional strategies, consumer trends, supply chain planning, and operational challenges. Reporting highlights how retailers prepare for and execute peak season campaigns to maximise revenue and manage demand. Designed for executives and managers, it provides insights into effective planning and competitive positioning during the festive season.
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Aug- 2021 -17 AugustSupply Chain
Post Office and DPD partner for ‘click and collect’ services
The Post Office and DPD have announced a new partnership that will see parcels delivered directly to its branches for click-and-collect services, opening up its network to external carriers for the first time in its 360-year history. The service will initially be available at around 250 Post Offices this month…
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9 AugustSupermarkets
Aldi to create more than 2,000 roles before Christmas
Aldi is set to create more than 2,000 new jobs across its UK business between now and Christmas. It comes as the group, which currently has over 920 stores and employs around 38,000 people, said it was “pushing ahead” with plans to open more than one new store a week…
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4 AugustComment
Why the coming economic boom will be bigger than we think
The world has been turned upside down in the past 18 months, making predictions a tougher game than ever. Economists are used to using metrics like inflation, consumer spending or job markets to predict what would happen. In this new world of Covid, furlough and post-Brexit trade, traditional measures are…
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Jul- 2021 -29 JulyOnline & Digital
Very transfers fashion returns to East Midlands fulfilment centre
The Very Group has completed the migration of all its clothing and footwear returns to Skygate, its automated fulfilment centre in the East Midlands. The 850,000 square foot fulfilment centre, which launched the day the first national lockdown began in March 2020, has shipped 20 million items and over eight…
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12 JulyComment
Getting email right for a successful Christmas season
Annual retail sales and profits skyrocket over the Christmas season, According to the National Retail Federation, Christmas sales can be 20-40% of a retailer’s annual sales. Given the stop-start nature of 2021, most UK retailers want to close out with the biggest revenues they can this year. During the pandemic,…
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6 JulyOnline & Digital
Victoria Plum partners with tree planting charity
Online bathroom retailer Victoria Plum has announced a partnership with Just One Tree to plant thousands of trees over the next 12 months. Each pound donated will fund the planting of one tree, as well as supporting the Barnet-based charity’s oceans project initiatives, which target mangrove and kelp regeneration. The…
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Jun- 2021 -17 JuneComment
In the age of online shopping, shoplifting has gone digital
April this year signalled a fresh start for shop owners as lockdown restrictions on non-essential retailers in the UK were lifted. Retailers now have the chance to forge a new relationship with customers and engage with them as they return to the high street. However, our world is becoming increasingly…
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Apr- 2021 -26 AprilDepartment Stores
John Lewis Partnership to donate £1m to over 1,000 local charities
The John Lewis Partnership has announced that it will donate over £1m this summer to more than 1,000 local charities and community organisations in an effort to help end child poverty across the UK. As part of its support, both John Lewis and Waitrose shops will direct its regular community…
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23 AprilAdvice
Getting ready for the post-covid retail boom
From being in the grip of the second wave in a bleak mid-Winter two months ago with so much uncertainty and anxiety there really has been a remarkable turnaround due to the determination of all to fix this situation. A majority of the population have been vaccinated and sunnier days…
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20 AprilOnline & Digital
M&S boosts online capacity through new warehouse
M&S has announced that work has begun on its Bradford Distribution Centre, which is set to become a second online warehouse for M&S.com in efforts to increase its online capacity. The reengineering of the group’s supply chain, including the extension of the Bradford warehouse, is an “important enabler” to M&S’s…
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