All Stores and property articles – Page 93
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First look: Amazon’s first-ever hairdressing salon concept to launch in London
US tech giant Amazon is set to open its first-ever Amazon Salon in east London, trialling some of its newest technology and stocking products from its new dot-com beauty hub.
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Opinion
Anita Balchandani: ‘Expect a spending splurge but not a straight-line recovery’
After a long hiatus, as non-essential retail reopened in the UK the early signs suggest there are reasons to look forward with optimism.
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Analysis
Analysis: Will the supermarket shop-in-shop resonate now high streets have reopened?
One of the retail phenomena of the past year has been the rise and rise of the supermarket shop-in-shop.
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Analysis
Five ways to turn your staff into customer champions
Retail Week’s Customer Champions report, produced in association with Critizr, outlines the crucial role of frontline staff in welcoming customers back to stores.
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News
Retailers team up with government to launch #ShopKind campaign
Retailers including Tesco and B&Q have teamed up with various trade bodies, the Home Office, charity Crimestoppers and unions to launch a new campaign around staff abuse.
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Opinion
AO’s Danny Emmett: ‘Pitting online and in-store against each other is a false fight’
Great innovators from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs had it right. Don’t just give customers what they ask for, give them what they don’t know they want yet
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In pictures: Laura Ashley relaunches as shop-in-shop in Next
Laura Ashley has relaunched its homewares department in partnership with Next, unveiling a shop-in-shop concept this week.
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Analysis
Analysis: Shops and the 15-minute city – how to win in a hyper-local world
As retailers look ahead to a post-Covid reality, could the French concept of a 15-minute city provide a recipe for success in the UK?
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Opinion
‘Retail not essential? Try telling that to reopening day shoppers’
There was a joyful sense of release on Monday when, after three months of lockdown darkness, so-called non-essential shops reopened.
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Opinion
Peter Williams: ‘To fully restart retail we need a return to pre-Covid behaviour’
When asked my views about looking forward for retail, the honest answer is: “I’m really not sure that I know.”
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Grocery powers retail sales rise in March
Retail sales climbed in March, but many categories remained in decline as grocery powered the increase.
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In pictures: Primark, JD Sports and John Lewis lure back shoppers for reopening
As non-essential retail reopens its doors in England on April 12, Retail Week visits key shopping locations to gauge retail offers and shopper appetite.
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News
Homebase strikes Next shop-in-shop deal as buyers circle
Homebase will open garden centres inside six Next stores from today to coincide with retail’s reopening.
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Opinion
Alia Hawa: ‘Covid certificates are unnecessary and will damage retail’s recovery’
With non-essential retail reopening today, news that the government is considering making Covid certificates mandatory for customers in stores comes as another blow.
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Opinion
Kate Hardcastle: ‘Successful high streets will have the human at their heart’
As retailers prepare to reopen, there has been much focus on what the future high street will look like.
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Analysis
Live updates: Retail’s big reopening as Covid restrictions ease
The lights are being turned on again, three months after many stores went dark for the third lockdown as Covid gripped the country.
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First look: Frasers unveils vision for department store of the future
Frasers Group has lifted the lid on its first new department store since it acquired House of Fraser in 2018.
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Analysis
Worldview: How Swarovski and Grocery Neighbour are reinventing the store
The Covid-19 pandemic is magnifying the need for retailers to rethink how physical space is used in the future.
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News
Frasers Group calls for inquiry into Peacocks deal
The Mike Ashley-led Frasers Group has called on MPs to launch an inquiry into the handling of the sale of fashion chain Peacocks to a group backed by former owner Philip Day.
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Government faces criticism as it hints at Covid certificates in stores
Coronavirus certificates could be needed to enter some high street shops from this summer, the government has hinted, as Labour pledged to vote against any such plans.