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Gallery
Store gallery: Conviviality Retail uncorks a new offer
Conviviality, the group that owns Wine Rack and Bargain Booze is raising its in-store game. Retail Week talks to Conviviality boss Diana Hunter.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Mr Arkwright’s Tool Emporium celebrates a bygone age
Mr Awkright’s Tool Emporium has opened in central Leeds and uses shoppers nostalgia to its advantage with its throwback store design.
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News
B&M reports first-quarter like-for-like sales rise of 6%
Newly floated value retailer B&M has posted strong first-quarter sales growth and said that full-year guidance is in line with expectations.
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News
Argos cuts or freezes 10,000 prices as it unveils autumn/winter range
Multichannel retailer Argos launched its autumn/winter range on Saturday, featuring 43,000 products.
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News
Surge in searches shows grocery shoppers turning to mobile technology
Grocery shoppers are increasingly making use of mobile technology as they plan shopping, evidenced by a surge in search volumes during the second quarter of 2014.
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News
Mothercare finance boss Matt Smith to leave for Debenhams
Department group Debenhams has named Matt Smith as chief financial officer.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Home Retail Group, Morrisons and 'supermarket tax'
Retail news round-up on July 28, 2014: Home Retail considers Homebase disposal, retailers attack ‘supermarket tax’ proposal, Leighton and Norman in frame for Morrisons chairmanship
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News
Destination Maternity reveals it will not bid for Mothercare
Destination Maternity has revealed it does not intend to make an offer for the UK mother and baby retailer Mothercare.
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Analysis
Analysis: M&S' new IT director Carl Dawson's To Do List
M&S poached Tesco’s Carl Dawson to become its new IT director. Retail Week looks at what he needs to focus on in his new role.
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Analysis
Analysis: Is it time for Amazon to focus on making money?
Amazon’s shares fell 10% last night, following news of its second quarter loss. Retail Week asks if it is time for Amazon to start focusing on profits?
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News
Mothercare chief financial officer Matt Smith resigns
Mothercare chief financial officer Matt Smith has resigned from his role at the maternity retailer.
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News
Sainsbury’s shares jump 4% on Qatari bid speculation
Sainsbury’s shares have risen 4%, amid a resurgence of market speculation that the supermarket’s biggest investor, the Qatar Investment Authority, is considering another bid.
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Opinion
Blog: Why Sunday shopping makes life a little easier
It wasn’t too long ago that Sunday was truly the day of rest but all that has changed, fuelled by consumer demand and facilitated by Sunday delivery.
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News
Amazon loses £9.4bn in value as it posts £74.2m second-quarter loss
More than $16bn (£9.4bn) was wiped off the value of Amazon last night as it posted a net loss of $126m (£74.2m) in the three months to June 30.
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News
Infographic: John Lewis clearance helps weekly sales surge 18.8%
John Lewis ended its summer Sale with 18.8% growth year on year last week, driven by a stellar performance in its home department.
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News
Comet administrators to be probed over handling of liquidation
Vince Cable is to back a probe into the administrators of Comet, referring three partners of Deloitte to chartered accountants body ICAEW.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Amazon and Comet
Retail news round-up on July 25, 2014: Amazon quarterly loss widened to £74m in its second quarter and Vince Cable to reveal Comet’s administrators face a probe by the accounting watchdog.
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News
When in Romania for Kingfisher’s newly knighted chief executive
Kingfisher’s chief executive Sir Ian Cheshire was recently spotted decorating the walls of an orphanage in Romania with B&Q’s Kevin O’Byrne.
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News
Tesco goes retro with a vintage way to deliver the goods
Tesco’s took shoppers at its Sheringham branch back with a vintage truck parked outside the store heralding the retailer’s prices.
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News
Intermarché shows that the beauty is in the eye of the greengrocer
French supermarket Intermarché has launched a campaign to reintroduce imperfect fruit to its shelves as a means of reducing food waste.