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Analysis
Analysis: How are retailers protecting staff during the coronavirus outbreak?
As the government takes increasingly stringent action to combat the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, retail staff have found themselves on the front line in the face of panic buying and contagion fears.
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News
Chancellor suspends business rates for 12 months for ‘economic fight’
The chancellor has announced 12-month business rates holidays for all retailers and pubs as part of a sweeping set of measures designed to support business in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.
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News
Coronavirus: Retailers call for rates relief as store closure fears grow
Retailers are banding together to call on the government for exemption from business rates if shops are forced to close because of the coronavirus outbreak, and have renewed demands for far-reaching reform.
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News
Mountain Warehouse boss mulls 2,000 redundancies amid coronavirus sales slump
Mountain Warehouse chief executive Mark Neale has warned the business may need to make substantial redundancies following a “catastrophic” drop in sales triggered by the coronavirus.
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Morrisons to hire 3,500 new staff as it ramps up online deliveries
Morrisons is to hire 3,500 new workers as part of plans to ramp up its home delivery service during the coronavirus pandemic.
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News
Amazon to hire 100,000 new workers to meet coronavirus-induced demand
Amazon has said it will take on 100,000 new staff to meet increased demand for online shopping caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Opinion
The Secret Retailer: Boris, we face fight for survival without your help
In the first of our columns from a ‘secret retailer’, one chief executive with stores nationwide calls on the government to up its game on coronavirus – and warns businesses will go bust if it doesn’t.
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Analysis
Data analysis: Opportunities and challenges for department stores
As John Lewis embarks upon a strategic review of its business and coronavirus hammers department store sales, Retail Week takes a deeper dive to investigate the challenges and opportunities across the UK department store sector.
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News
Laura Ashley blames coronavirus outbreak as it slumps into administration
Laura Ashley’s owners have filed an intention to appoint administrators and have suspended trading, blaming the coronavirus pandemic for a “significant” impact on trading.
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News
Aldi begins rationing lines as stockpiling continues
Aldi has become the first supermarket in the UK to effectively ration the sale of all lines as customers continue to stockpile in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.
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News
Debenhams demands rent holiday as coronavirus dents footfall
Embattled department store chain Debenhams has heaped further misery on its landlords by requesting a rent holiday of up to five months as fears over coronavirus dent high street footfall.
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News
Private equity firms circle Asda for potential £7bn takeover
Asda has attracted several interested private equity firms for a potential takeover which, according to reports, could value the business at over £7bn.
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News
ScS delays results after government’s coronavirus policy shift
ScS has delayed the release of its half-year results following yesterday’s changes to the government’s coronavirus policy.
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News
Dixons Carphone to shutter Carphone Warehouse stores, 2,900 jobs at risk
Dixons Carphone has unveiled plans to shutter its standalone Carphone Warehouse stores as part of the ongoing overhaul of its mobile division, resulting in 2,900 expected job losses.
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News
Coronavirus: H&M sales hit as it shutters swathes of European stores
H&M will temporarily close hundreds of stores across Europe in a bid to battle the spread of coronavirus as its quarterly sales in China were hit by the pandemic.
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Opinion
Opinion: Coronavirus – what retailers do now will define them in the future
As 21st-century consumers, we’ve gotten used to having the world at our fingertips. Then seemingly overnight, all the stuff we take for granted is in question – access to healthcare; groceries on shelves; the ability to travel, go to school, socialise with friends.
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Interview
Interview: Heal’s boss Hamish Mansbridge on the heritage retailer’s new look
Heal’s is a well-established name in the UK furniture market and, after a difficult few years, chief executive Hamish Mansbridge is bringing a modern take to the heritage brand for a new generation of consumers.
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News
Coronavirus: PM urges Brits to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres
The prime minister has urged people to avoid pubs, clubs, restaurants, theatres and other social environments as part of new measures to combat coronavirus.
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Opinion
Opinion: Retailers are the unsung heroes of the coronavirus crisis
For too long, retail has been cut a raw deal.
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News
Primark owner calls for rates reform as coronavirus outbreak hits trade
Primark parent company ABF’s finance director John Bason has urged the government to address business rates reform as the retail industry battles the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.