GlobalData
This coverage examines GlobalData’s role in shaping retail strategy and market understanding within the UK sector. Reporting highlights the firm’s retail forecasts, consumer behaviour insights, sector-specific analyses, and commentary on key retail occasions — providing retail executives, strategists, and brand managers with data-driven perspectives to inform decision-making across categories including food and grocery, fashion, health and beauty, and online retail.
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Jul- 2018 -23 JulyAdvice
Why Poundworld’s failure to differentiate from other discounters led to high street demise
Poundworld, which is set to disappear from the UK high street by early August 2018, must look to its own failures and in particular its failure to stand out from other discounters. It is easy to assume that the higher supply costs stemming from Brexit, ferocious competition amongst discounters and…
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17 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon Prime Day receives worldwide backlash
Amazon’s annual ‘Prime Day’ event saw a shaky start yesterday after worker strikes and a lengthy website crash resulted in a worldwide backlash. The sale, which began at 3pm on Monday 16 July and offers thousands of discounted items, immediately crashed the ecommerce giant’s website, which was down for 45…
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Jun- 2018 -21 JuneGovernment
MPs hit out at ‘baloney’ supermarket claims of price-cut post-merger
Neil Parish MP yesterday told Asda CEO Roger Burnley not to “give us a load of baloney” after Burnley repeatedly claimed his firm’s merger with Sainsbury’s and the product price cuts they have promised would not negatively affect small suppliers. Burnley said during a Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select…
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