More on Me + Em – Page 681
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Tesco facing £4bn bill as equal pay claims hit 1,000
The number of Tesco store staff lodging an equal pay challenge against the grocer has swelled to 1,000.
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B&M hails ‘strong’ first quarter in 'sluggish' market
B&M has hailed a “strong” start to its financial year after like-for-like sales increased 1.6% during its first quarter.
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DFS cautions on profits amid fourth-quarter 'disruption'
DFS has cautioned that full-year profitability will fall below last year’s total after hot weather and “disruption” to deliveries from the Far East dented fourth-quarter performance.
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Asos third-quarter sales spike as customer base swells
Asos has posted a jump in third-quarter revenues as it recorded strong growth in its domestic UK market and overseas.
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Data
Data: The UK's top 30 growth retailers 2018
A connected customer experience is key to grow your business, finds exclusive research published in Retail Week’s annual top 30 growth retailers ranking.
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Analysis
Analysis: What is retail's next big tech shift?
We ask speakers from Retail Week and World Retail Congress’s Tech. event to pick the technology that will have the biggest impact on retail over the next three years
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Cartoon
Retail cartoon: M&S bosses face shareholder shootout
Patrick Blower’s take on Gareth-Southgate-waistcoat-supplier Marks & Spencer’s AGM, which took place at Wembley Stadium this week
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Westminster council unveils Oxford Street investment plan
Westminster City Council has agreed an investment plan to “transform the Oxford Street district into a global, iconic destination” without the pedestrianisation of the main thoroughfare.
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Sainsbury's hires RSA chair Scicluna as Tyler exits
Sainsbury’s has appointed RSA Insurance Group and Portland Estates chairman Martin Scicluna as its chair, replacing David Tyler.
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Analysis
Analysis: Five things we learned from the M&S AGM
Marks & Spencer’s AGM took place at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, as chairman Archie Norman addressed the retailer’s shareholders en masse for the first time.
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B&Q ploughs £100m into price cuts across 2,000 products
B&Q has invested £100m into price cuts across a swathe of core products in a bid to lure new shoppers and reduce its reliance on promotions.
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Opinion
Opinion: Click and collect can be an ‘experience’
Whichever way you cut it, clicking and collecting has to be the ultimate non-experience that can take place in a store.
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Retail Voice
How do customers really feel about in-store tech?
Simon Fahie, managing director of global technology at ByBox, shares insights from the company’s latest research into shopper relationships with in-store technology.
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Harvey Nichols launches perfume concession with Sniph
Swedish perfume subscription business Sniph has launched its first UK concession in luxury department store Harvey Nichols.
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Poundworld to close 25 stores, axing 242 jobs
Poundworld is closing 25 of its 355 branches this week including stores in Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham.
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Opinion
Opinion: Tesco will be poorer while Wilson recuperates
Sometimes bolts from the blue strike at random and without warning which put business, and life in general, into perspective.
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Mountain Warehouse sells £45m stake to ramp up expansion
Mountain Warehouse has sold a 20% stake in the business to Inflexion Private Equity Partners.
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UK retail sales rise, buoyed by football fever
UK retail sales rose in June as shoppers snapped up big match essentials, but non-food sectors such as furniture and footwear continued to suffer.
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Ocado swings to half-year loss as sales rise
Ocado has recorded a loss at the half-year mark as the online grocer ploughed investment into its proposition following a spate of international partnerships.
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Tesco UK boss Wilson diagnosed with cancer, steps down
Tesco’s UK and Ireland chief executive Charles Wilson will step down from his role this month following a throat cancer diagnosis in April.