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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Jul- 2018 -19 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon Prime Day crash drives shoppers elsewhere
Amazon Prime Day’s website issues produced a ‘halo effect’ for UK retailers, as online businesses saw a recorded a 13% uplift in sales on the day. While Amazon was experiencing technical difficulties with its website and boycotts over alleged poor treatment of its warehouse staff, the 17% increase in the…
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17 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon Prime Day website crash ‘costs retailer over £75m’ in sales
The website crash experienced at the start of Amazon Prime Day has cost the online retailer over £75m in potential sales, according to sales aggregator site LovetheSales.com. Amazon suffered a number of outages during the event which took place on 16 July; the Prime Day landing page was reportedly not…
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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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11 JulyOnline & Digital
UK retailers ‘hijack’ Amazon Prime Day
UK retailers have attempted to ‘hijack’ Amazon Prime Day by offering discounts in the run up to the sale event. According to retail sales aggregator LovetheSales.com, 30% more discounted products are currently available to consumers than usual at this time of year. The company has suggested that this “unusual discounting”…
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Jun- 2018 -7 JuneM&A
Amazon to show 20 Premier League matches a season
Amazon has announced it has won a broadcast package to show 20 Premier League matches per season from the 2019 to 2022. The coverage will begin with the first round of midweek fixtures in December and all 10 matches on Boxing Day. Amazon Prime will also have its own highlights…
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Apr- 2018 -6 AprilAnalysis
Caring consumers
We all know that global e-commerce is growing rapidly; recent figures have revealed that retail ecommerce sales are expected to grow to €3.65 trillion (£3.187tn) by 2021, up from $1.05tn (£917bn) or 246.15 % in 2014. Despite the major positives of the industry’s fast growth, ecommerce is having an increasingly…
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Mar- 2018 -8 MarchAdvice
Break down the walls: overcoming three main barriers to conversions
We are constantly trying to come up with reasons why we should not purchase a product, so the job of a retailer is to make the transaction journey as smooth as possible so visitors to your online store or marketplace become customers. Here is our advice on how to break…
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Jan- 2018 -30 JanuaryDepartment Stores
House of Fraser Boss wants Theresa May to give ‘clearer Brexit signal’
The billionaire owner of House of Fraser has called on the Prime Minister to provide a “definite signal” on what type of Brexit deal she wants. Ahead of Theresa May’s visit to China, Yuan Yufai said it was important for the UK government to reassure people. Yufai is the owner…
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10 JanuaryGovernment
Plastic bag charge set to affect all retailers
The 5p plastic bag charge could be applied to all retailers as part of new government plans to protect the environment. Prime Minister Theresa May is set to announce the 25-year environment plan on Thursday 11 to tackle “throw-away culture”. Currently, large businesses which have 250 or more employees are…
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