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- 2023 -10 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon warehouse workers to strike during Prime Day
Labour union GMB has announced that nearly 900 Amazon workers at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in Britain will strike for three days during its Prime Day event over a pay dispute, according to a Reuters report. In an emailed statement to Reuters, GMB said the strike will take place from 11-13…
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Apr- 2023 -28 AprilOnline & Digital
Amazon beats Q1 expectations but warns of slowed cloud growth
Amazon has beaten analysts’ expectations in the first quarter of trading, as revenues rose by 9% to $127.4bn (£102bn) against the $116.4bn (£93.4bn) reported the prior year. Over the period, North America sales and International sales increased by 11% and 1%, respectively, while Amazon Web Service AWS segment sales increased…
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27 AprilDepartment Stores
Frasers Group to unveil own version of Amazon Prime
Michael Murray, the chief executive of Frasers Group, has revealed at this year’s World Retail Congress in Barcelona that the group will be unveiling its own version of Amazon Prime, Retail Week has reported. The new membership scheme, which will be called ‘Frasers Plus’, would be a membership programme and…
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Feb- 2023 -28 FebruaryEconomy
PM agrees new Brexit deal with EU for NI
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has agreed a deal with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for new post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland. The Windsor Framework replaces the old Northern Ireland Protocol, and aims to deliver free-flowing trade in goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland…
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Jan- 2023 -6 JanuaryHigh Street
LCP Group acquires Gateway Retail Park
The LCP Group has announced it has acquired a Gateway Retail Park in Harwich, Essex – marking more than 20 retail acquisitions in 12 months. The group, which is part of M Core, the acquisitive commercial property collective that has invested more than £160m over 12 months in retail assets,…
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Dec- 2022 -5 DecemberHigh Street
CBI downgrades growth forecast to -0.4% amid ‘lacklustre outlook’
CBI has downgraded its GDP growth outlook significantly, to -0.4% in 2023 (from 1.0% in its last forecast), after a “turbulent year both politically and economically”. It said the reason behind the latest change is that the economy is likely to have fallen into a recession in Q3 2022, and…
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Nov- 2022 -18 NovemberOnline & Digital
Job cuts will continue into 2023, warns Amazon CEO
Amazon has confirmed that further cuts to its workforce should be expected in 2023, as the group continues its annual operating planning review, following reports it was planning to cut up to 10,000 jobs. In an open letter to staff, CEO Andy Jassy said team leaders across the group were…
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Oct- 2022 -28 OctoberOnline & Digital
Amazon shares fall as group predicts sales slowdown
Amazon has seen its shares plummet by as much as 20% after it warned of a slowdown in sales for the upcoming quarter. It comes as the group reported that sales hit $127.1bn (£110bn) in the quarter ended 30 September, 2022, a rise of 15% against the prior year yet…
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Sep- 2022 -21 SeptemberGovernment
Business energy bills to be capped under new gov scheme
The government has unveiled a new plan that is set to cap wholesale energy bills for businesses for an initial six-month period from 1 October. The Government Energy Bill Relief Scheme, unveiled today (21 September) by business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, will reportedly bring support for households, businesses and public sector…
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8 SeptemberEconomy
Energy bills to be capped at £2,500 a year from October
Prime minister Liz Truss has announced today that energy bills for typical households will be capped at £2,500 annually for their gas and electricity bills from the start of this coming October. The news comes as her first major policy announcement, and according to Sky News, the new price guarantee…
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