Prime
This coverage focuses on Amazon Prime and its expanding influence across the UK retail and e-commerce landscape. Retail Sector reports on Prime’s role in shaping consumer expectations around delivery, pricing, and loyalty through its membership model. Coverage includes insights into Prime Day performance, logistics and fulfilment innovation, subscription growth, and competitive impact on UK retailers. Articles also explore how Prime integrates with streaming, grocery, and marketplace services to strengthen Amazon’s ecosystem. For retail professionals, this category provides analysis of how Prime continues to redefine customer engagement, convenience, and value in modern retail.
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Jan- 2019 -11 JanuaryAnalysis
Keeping up with Amazon
Since its inception in the 90s, Amazon has become a global retail giant that has transformed the industry. Whether that transformation is seen as a positive or negative will vary depending on experience and which side of the argument you find yourself. For many retailers, Amazon, and similar online giants…
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Nov- 2018 -6 NovemberAnalysis
Tackling the serial returner – time to ban them?
I think like most online and brick and mortar stores, we’ve noticed an increasing challenge with serial returners. We sell high-end fashion and designer clothing and while our returns rate remains low, particularly compared to industry standards, it’s an issue which has become gradually more problematic for us over time…
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Oct- 2018 -31 OctoberClothing & Shoes
Amazon launches ‘try before you buy’ shopping service in UK
Amazon Fashion has launched its ‘try before you buy’ Prime Wardrobe service in the UK following a “successful” launch in America in June. The service is exclusively available to Amazon Prime members and allows them to have fashion items delivered for free, try them on at home and only pay…
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12 OctoberGovernment
Retailers could be forced to publish ethnicity pay gaps
Prime minister Theresa May has announced a series of measures to tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace, which includes the mandatory publishing of ethnicity pay gaps. The government has invited businesses to share its views on this mandatory approach to ethnicity pay reporting, since according to the group the number…
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Sep- 2018 -11 SeptemberEconomy
Amazon Prime users set to more than double in the next decade
Analysts predict the number of Amazon Prime subscribers will more than double in the next decade rising from 101 million at the end of 2017 up to 275 million. Citigroup analysts say “Prime members are growing 35% to 40% per annum” with analyst Mark May raising his 12 month price…
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Aug- 2018 -30 AugustGovernment
Government to consult on the ban of energy drink sales to children
The government is seeking views from the public on ending the sale of energy drinks to children and young people in England, the prime minister has announced. The consultation proposes that a ban would apply to drinks that contain more than 150mg of caffeine per litre and prevent all retailers…
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28 AugustEconomy
Amazon named ‘most reputable UK retailer’ in consumer survey
Amazon, Boots and John Lewis have topped the 2018 UK Retail RepTrak ranking of the most reputable retailers, the Reputation Institute has announced. The research was based on 5,175 individual ratings from the UK general public and based on an assessment of 50 nominated companies. Amazon’s reputation significantly improved since…
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21 AugustEconomy
Online retail spending stutters after England World Cup exit
UK online retail sales slipped to their lowest year-on-year (YoY) growth in 2018 so in July, as consumer spending “slumped” in the weeks following the end of World Cup. According to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, online sales increased by just 10% (YoY) in July, below the three,…
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15 August
Amazon Prime one-day delivery ad banned by ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has now banned Amazon from advertising one-day delivery on it’s Prime service after it was found to be “misleading”. Earlier this week the ASA had asked the online retail giant to “clarify” its its ‘one-day’ delivery claims for Prime customers after the regulatory body received…
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13 AugustOnline & Digital
Amazon told to clarify ‘one-day’ delivery claims
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told Amazon to clarify its ‘one-day’ delivery claims for Prime customers, after the regulatory body called it “misleading”. Around 270 customers reported not receiving their items until after the next day. The ASA said customers were “likely to understand that, so long as they…
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