More on Me + Em – Page 774
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News
Asos launches 'try before you buy' service
Asos has launched a ‘try before you buy’ service, letting customers try on products at home and only pay for what they keep.
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Analysis
Analysis: The five best examples of multichannel retail
Everything from touchscreen monitors to selfie-designated stations and offline fitting experiences feature in our best examples of multichannel retail.
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Analysis
Analysis: When retailers go from friend to foe
Footasylum’s IPO represents a second sports retail payday for David Wardle and John Makin. The pair had previously founded, built and floated JD Sports before going into competition against it.
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Gallery
In pictures: Fenwick leads Bracknell's regeneration
Bracknell used to be a place shopped by some of its locals and almost nobody else. But now a regenerated town centre and a winsome Fenwick have put this one on the list.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: The department store's future?
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on department stores’ attempts to embraces services and the experiential.
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News
Arcadia poised to slash hundreds of head office roles
Arcadia is likely to axe hundreds of head office roles in an effort to increase efficiency and streamline the business.
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Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct launches BrandsMax fascia
Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is developing a new business, BrandMax, which may be a bid to win trade from TKMaxx.
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FMCG titan Unilever plots direct-to-consumer move
Wholesale titan Unilever has signed up to a new shopping service to start selling their brands direct to consumers.
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Next full-price sales edge up in third quarter
Next’s full-price sales advanced 1.3% in the 12 weeks to October 29, driven once again by growth at its healthy Directory business.
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Gallery
Store of the week: Bershka pop-up, New York City
The youthful Inditex fascia has made a playful debut in New York City with a store in SoHo.
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Analysis
Analysis: Where do retail leaders love to shop?
We ask some of the UK’s best retailers which bricks-and-mortar stores appeal to them most as consumers.
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Opinion
Sainsbury's lights right fuses, but don't expect fireworks
Bonfire night may be just around the corner, but don’t expect too many fireworks from Sainsbury’s when it updates the market this week.
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Data
Data: Waitrose on what we eat, when, and how we buy it
Waitrose’s latest Food and Drink Report lifts the lid on the biggest trends from 2017 and looks and what products will be filling shoppers’ fridges in 2018.
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News
Shop prices decrease at slowest rate in four years
Shop prices decreased at their slowest rate in four years during October, despite food price inflation.
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News
Missguided snaps up ex-Shop Direct exec Jonathan Wall
Missguided has hired former Shop Direct group ecommerce director Jonathan Wall as its chief digital officer.
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Reiss profits drop amid global openings
Reiss’ profits dropped last year despite rising sales as the retailer ploughed investment into global openings.
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News
John Lewis sales slip amid fashion slowdown
Sales at John Lewis slid last week as “unseasonably warm weather” dented fashion sales.
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Opinion
Opinion: Bailey will be a tough act to follow
Cast your mind back to 2001. Tony Blair was in power, Westlife were at number one – and every market stall sold Burberry check baseball caps.
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News
Burberry’s Christopher Bailey to exit the business
Burberry president and chief creative officer Christopher Bailey is set to leave the listed luxury retailer at the end of 2018.
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Fenwick profits slump as it firms up 2019 online launch
Fenwick has suffered a slump in full-year profits as markdowns and investments in its digital capabilities dented its bottom line.