More on Me + Em – Page 895
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News
John Lewis boosted by fashion as Mother's Day bites
Strong fashion sales at John Lewis drove an overall 2.8% year-on-year uplift at the department store retailer last week.
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Analysis
Dobbies’ new green-fingered boss Nicholas Marshall
To describe Dobbies’ new chief executive Nicholas Marshall as a garden enthusiast would be an understatement.
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Today in retail: Non-food spend slump settles in
The latest figures on retail sales from BRC-KPMG’s monthly monitor paints a worrying picture for non-food retailers.
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News
IBM and Salesforce team up to bolster AI insights
IBM and Salesforce unveiled plans to connect their respective artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to drive insights for their retail partners.
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Analysis
Analysis: February retail sales sector-by-sector
Retail like-for-likes slipped 0.4% in February as non-food sales suffered their first quarterly decline for more than five years.
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Opinion
Opinion: As Amazon’s tax falls, is high street at risk?
Even if you want to quibble about Amazon being the epitome of the model ecommerce operation, it is certainly the behemoth.
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News
Tesco extends same-day click and collect proposition
Tesco is extending its same-day click and collect grocery service as it ramps up its multichannel credentials.
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Shoe Zone resoles board with new finance chief
Shoe Zone has appointed finance director Jonathan Fearn to its board as chief financial officer.
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Asda fined £300k over dead mice in London warehouse
Asda has been penalised for food safety breaches after inspectors found dead mice and flies at its home delivery depot in Enfield.
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Retail Voice
What does digital transformation really entail?
Microsoft rounds up vital insights from an exclusive digital evolution event, featuring a host of expert retail speakers.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Ashley buys Agent Provocateur
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on the sale of struggling lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur to Sport Direct’s Mike Ashley in a pre-pack administration deal
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News
Budgens to lose 30 stores in franchisee administration
More than 30 Budgens stores are set to close with the loss of 815 jobs after the franchisee running the shops plunged into administration.
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Discounters' market share spikes as sales soar
Discounters now hold more than 12% of the British grocery market, with sales at both Aldi and Lidl soaring in the last quarter.
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Secret Sales reveals redundancies weeks after sale
Secret Sales has confirmed that it is making “a number” of back-office staff redundant, just weeks after it was sold to a private-equity firm.
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News
Breakfast briefing: John Lewis and Aldo
Retail news round-up: John Lewis recalls women's tops over fire risk, and Aldo appoints new CEO
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News
Update: Conviviality poaches Halfords people director
Halfords is losing another member of its executive team with people director Jonathan Crookall poised to depart, Retail Week can reveal.
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Non-food sales fall for first time since November 2011
Non-food retail sales suffered their first quarterly decline for more than five years amid a “challenging” period of trading.
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Next and New Look sign up to Telford's new fashion mall
Next and New Look have penned pre-let deals at Telford Shopping Centre as the town’s fresh fashion mall takes shape.
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News
Today in retail: Sweet Dreams for Mike Logue
Four years ago today, Dreams collapsed into administration, heralding hundreds of job losses and scores of store closures.
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News
Dobbies boss Cleland quits after eight months in charge
Dobbies chief executive John Cleland has quit the garden centre business and been replaced by former Wyevale boss Nicholas Marshall with immediate effect.