All Entertainment articles – Page 93
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Tesco Direct to introduce customer reviews
Tesco Direct has signed a deal enabling shoppers to review its products online.
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Retail like-for-likes up 1.1% in January
Like-for-like retail sales figures rose 1.1 per cent in January, the biggest increase since May, although the outlook remains 'challenging'.
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AnalysisConsumer behaviour: All in the mind
Research shows that women are more demanding when they shop and influence up to 80 per cent of purchases. Charlotte Hardie finds out how retailers can cash in by tapping into the female psyche.
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OpinionIt's time to regain your margin
I joked in a previous column that some of us might visit our shops in December, hear Wham’s Last Christmas and genuinely wonder whether it might be. I rather wish I hadn’t now.
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Woolworths online rebirth to tap entertainment
Woolworths is to be reborn as a serious player in the online entertainment market under the ownership of Shop Direct.
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Zavvi management table bid for business
The management of collapsed entertainment retailer Zavvi has made a bid for the company.
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Ailing Irish retailers call on government for protection
Irish retailers have urged their government to take action to ease the mounting pressures on beleaguered companies suffering in the recession.
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Zavvi to close a further 17 stores
Defunct retailer Zavvi is to close a further 17 stores, leading to the redundancy of 242 employees.
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BRC produces US product safety standard
Some of world’s biggest retailers will have to adhere to the British Retail Consortium's product safety standard following an agreement with North America's leading retail trade association.
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Most retailers report like-for-like Christmas sales growth
More than half (52 per cent) of retailers reported positive like-for-like sales over the Christmas period.
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Borders to pull out of BAA airports
Borders UK has been forced to pull out of BAA airports after failing to agree new rental terms.
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Woolworths bought by Shop Direct Group
Woolworths will be relaunched as an online store after the brand was bought by Shop Direct Group owners the Barclay brothers.
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Amazon reports strong Christmas
US online giant Amazon continued to storm ahead of the competition, boosted by strong Christmas sales with net sales in the final quarter of 2008 up 18 per cent to US$6.7bn ( 4.6bn).
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Falling confidence hits younger customers
Consumer confidence dropped again this month and is also beginning to hit younger consumers.
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NewsAmazon poised to launch UK online grocery range
Amazon UK is set to shake up the grocery e-tail market with the launch of an online food offer.
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Administrators close 12 more Zavvi stores
A further 12 Zavvi stores have been closed by administrator Ernst & Young, resulting in 295 redundancies.
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Gamestation consults staff ahead of central office merger
Game has begun a consultation process with 80 of its Gamestation staff at its head office in York as it realigns its management across the group.
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Retail Trust raises over £1m
Retailers came out in force last night to lend their support to retail charity The Retail Trust and raise nearly 1.1m at its glitzy London ball.
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Retail sales plummet in early January, CBI figures show
Nearly two thirds of retailers experienced a fall in sales volumes in the first half of January, and February is expected to be just as tough.
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WHSmith maintains margins in challenging trading conditions
WHSmith's like-for-like sales fell 5 per cent in the 20 weeks to January 17 but it has continued to maintain strong gross margins across the business.