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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Sep- 2022 -6 SeptemberGovernment
Retailers call for strong leadership and high street support from new PM
The retail industry has urged Liz Truss to work alongside the sector and provide “strong leadership” amid the deepening cost-of-living crisis, as she succeeds the role of prime minister today (6 September). The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that while the retail industry is ready to work with the new…
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Aug- 2022 -31 AugustEconomy
Food prices rise at fastest rate since 2008, BRC finds
New data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and NielsenIQ index has shown that food prices have risen at their fastest rate since 2008 in August, with an increase of 9.3% after an initial 7% increase last month. The BRC reported that fresh food was more than 10% more expensive…
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17 AugustEconomy
Inflation hits new 40-year high at 10.1%
Inflation has once again broken records with a new 40-year high recorded last month, as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit 10.1% in the 12 months to July 2022, up from 9.4% in June. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the biggest contribution to this figure was rising…
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16 AugustFeatures
In conversation with the CIO of the ‘Amazon Prime of mattresses’
How was Mattress Online started? Mattress Online was started back in 2003 by Steve Kelly, an industry expert in the mattress and bed industry, and Steve Adams, an entrepreneur in e-commerce. The starting point was bridging traditional retail with the next step, which was getting it online. Bear in mind,…
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1 AugustHigh Street
Shop vacancies fall for third quarter in a row
In the second quarter of 2022, the overall GB vacancy rate decreased to 14.0%, which was 0.1 percentage points better than Q1 and 0.5 percentage points better than the same period last year, according to the BRC. This was the third consecutive quarter of falling vacancy rates. All locations saw…
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Jul- 2022 -29 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon posts £1.6bn loss in Q2
Amazon has fallen to a net loss of $2.0bn (£1.6bn) in its second quarter, down from a profit of $7.8bn (£6.4bn) in the second quarter of 2021. This loss reportedly includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $3.9bn (£3.2bn) included in non-operating expenses from Amazon’s investment in Rivian Automotive, an electric…
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27 JulyOnline & Digital
Amazon prime raises subscription price amid rising costs
Amazon has announced that it will increase the cost of its monthly Prime subscriptions from £7.99 to £8.99 from 15 September 2022, due to increased inflation and higher operating costs. The price of the annual Prime membership will increase from £79 to £95, and this marks the first time Amazon…
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6 JulyNews
Amazon faces CMA investigation over suspected anti-competitive practice
Amazon is facing an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over concerns that practices affecting sellers on its UK marketplace may be anti-competitive and “could result in a worse deal for customers”. The CMA said its investigation will consider whether Amazon has a dominant position in the UK…
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Jun- 2022 -23 JunePeople Moves
Amazon announces new global retail CEO
Amazon has announced the appointment of Doug Herrington as the new CEO of the company’s Worldwide Amazon Stores business. Herrington brings “substantial” retail, grocery, demand generation, product development, and Amazon experience to the role. He has been at Amazon for 17 years, having joined the company in 2005 to build…
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May- 2022 -9 MayHigh Street
Shop owners to be forced to rent out empty premises
Shop owners in England could be forced to let out premises that have been vacant for over a year, under new plans from the government. The plans are set to be unveiled as part of the Levelling up and Regeneration Bill, expected to be unveiled in the Queen’s speech on…
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