More on Me + Em – Page 668
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Analysis
The new tech shaping retail customer experience
Retail Week uncovers the cutting-edge technologies UK retailers should be aware of if they want to meet ever-increasing consumer demands.
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Indicator
The innovators thriving in health and beauty
The health and beauty sector has performed resiliently in the face of increasingly difficult trading conditions over the past few years.
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Indicator
Health and beauty ranking 2018
Retail Week Indicator’s focus on health and beauty retail reveals and ranks retailers’ digital capabilities within the health and beauty sector through a strategic audit of all areas of a customer’s digital shopping journey.
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News
Primark Belfast staff 'will receive their pay'
Staff at Primark’s Belfast store that was gutted by a fire on Tuesday will be paid this week, but have yet to receive longer term security over their futures.
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Cartoon
Retail cartoon: Take a rain check on grocery prices
Patrick Blower’s take on the news that this year’s extreme weather – from the ‘beast from the east’ to summer heatwaves – is having a knock-on effect on food prices.
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Opinion
Opinion: Why Homebase deserves a lifeline from creditors
The fate of DIY retailer Homebase will be decided on Friday, when creditors vote on a proposed CVA.
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News
House of Fraser slams 'greedy' landlords
House of Fraser has warned that “time is running out” to save its stores, and attacked landlords for not accepting reduced rent payments.
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News
Shop prices rise for the first time in five years
For the first time since May 2013, shop prices increased in August, driven by rising grocery costs and slowing non-food deflation.
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News
Meet the start-ups who aim to transform retail
More than 60 start-ups with ideas that could drive retail innovation to new levels will feature along Discovery Mile at Retail Week and World Retail Congress’s Tech. festival of digital next month.
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Analysis
Analysis: How the warehouse is becoming the new shop
Retail in the old days used to be so much simpler. Location, location, location was a guiding mantra and chains raced to grab the best sites on the best high streets and top malls and parks.
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News
Primark's Belfast store gutted by blaze
A fire broke out at a landmark Primark store in Belfast city centre this morning and has devastated the building.
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Data
Retail weather: Summer temperatures return
The retail weather forecast from Saturday September 1 through to Friday September 7, 2018: warm again for most
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News
House of Fraser property plan details emerge
House of Fraser landlords are being offered a variety of options on stores under new owner Sports Direct.
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News
Homebase landlords ponder legal action over CVA
A group of landlords is weighing up legal action over DIY retailer Homebase’s CVA plans, which will be voted on by creditors this Friday.
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Analysis
Data: Top 30 retailers by store sales densities
In-store tech is a crucial weapon for driving footfall and conversion, according to Retail Week research that ranks retailers on sales densities.
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Opinion
Retailers putting plastic genie back in its bottle
That Sir David Attenborough is a living legend is beyond any reasonable doubt. But I think everyone has perhaps been a little surprised by the long-lasting impact of Blue Planet, which documented the damage inflicted by plastics on the oceans and its inhabitants.
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News
Agenda: WHSmith updates the market
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with a pre-close update from WHSmith.
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News
House of Fraser warehouses set to reopen
House of Fraser’s two distribution centres, which have been shuttered due to a dispute with XPO Logistics, will reportedly recommence operations today.
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News
Robin Phillips snares CEO role at Watch Shop
Robin Phillips has been appointed chief executive of jewellery giant Aurum’s online watch businesses Watch Shop and The Watch Hut.