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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Apr- 2022 -29 AprilClothing & Shoes
Victoria’s Secret and PINK Beauty launches on Amazon
Victoria’s Secret and Co. has launched its Victoria’s Secret Beauty and Pink Beauty products in Amazon’s store, with approximately 120 different products available and eligible for delivery with Prime. The assortment of products will also be available in the Victoria’s Secret storefront. Victoria’s Secret said the collaboration is the latest…
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Feb- 2022 -18 FebruaryEconomy
End of free Covid tests will harm workers, Union warns
Ending free tests and self-isolation rules, along with no masks, represents a “triple whammy” for Covid safety in stores, according to Usdaw Shoppers Union. It comes after news that government ministers are planning to stop supplies of coronavirus tests to universities in England, in the first case of ending the…
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4 FebruaryOnline & Digital
Amazon Q4 profits hit $14.3bn
Amazon has reported its profits increased to $14.3bn (£10.53bn) in the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2021, with sales surging by 9% year-on-year from $125.6bn (£92.5bn) to $137.4bn (£101.2bn) Operating income decreased 49% from $6.9bn (£5.08bn) compared to $3.5bn (£2.5bn) in Q4 FY21. Meanwhile, operating income for the full year…
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Nov- 2021 -17 NovemberOnline & Digital
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK from Jan 2022
Amazon has announced that from 19 January 2022 it will no longer accept Visa credit cards as a payment method in the UK. In an email to customers, the online retail giant said that it has made the decision “due to the high fees Visa charges for processing credit card…
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Aug- 2021 -2 AugustAnalysis
Impulse buying can help an online brand grow, if it’s done correctly
Impulse buying isn’t just a tactic used by bricks & mortar retailers, where shoppers are tempted with inexpensive treats as their defences are down as they make the final approach to the till. In fact, research from Kantar has found that more than 31% of us are now spontaneously splurging…
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Jul- 2021 -28 JulyFeatures
What would protective shopworkers’ legislation mean?
“I’ve been sworn at, spat at and had a knife pulled on me all in the last 10 months,” says a shop worker responding to the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) 2020 survey. This response is just one of many negative reports experienced by workers across the…
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6 JulyFeatures
Could the UK-Australia trade deal be better than advertised?
Marmite for Vegemite, Penguins for TimTams. These are just two of the swaps that Boris Johnson alluded to as he addressed the nation regarding the completion of an “historic” trade deal between the UK and Australia. While these may not seem like major products to drive economic recovery, and Australia…
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6 JulyCoronavirus
Usdaw ‘slams’ lifting of restrictions in shops
Usdaw has “slammed” the government’s announcement that it plans to lift safety measures in stores once the final Covid restrictions are lifted on 19 July. In a speech made yesterday (5 July), the Prime Minister confirmed that face coverings would no longer be mandatory in shops from that date, whilst…
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5 JulyGovernment
Retailers call on PM to ‘support’ laws against retail violence
Some 100 of the UK’s “leading” retailers have written to the Prime Minister calling on him to support an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would tackle violence and abuse against retail workers. The letter, which was coordinated by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), comes as…
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Jun- 2021 -10 June
CMA could investigate Amazon over data fears
The CMA is reportedly planning to launch a formal competition investigation into Amazon, following a similar investigation launched by the EU, according to the Financial Times. Three people familiar with the situation reportedly told the FT that the competition watchdog has been analysing the online giant “for months”, with particular…
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