All Retail Week articles in 22-28 August 2020 – Page 3
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NewsWalmart and Microsoft join forces on TikTok bid
Walmart has joined forces with Microsoft to launch a multibillion-dollar bid for TikTok’s US business.
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Digital editionRetail Week magazine: August 28
This week’s issue looks at the true cost of ecommerce for retailers and brands, the sectors capturing the most footfall since lockdown eased, and the essential skills that will be in demand for a new generation of storeworkers.
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Future LeadersBe Inspired: Retailers raising the bar in mental health support
The UK is facing a mental health crisis. From Superdrug to Pets at Home, meet the retailers making it their responsibility to support and protect their employees’ mental health.
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Opinion‘Online shops mimicking physical stores are new danger for bricks and mortar’
‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’. Whatever your view on the outcome of the strategy that saw most of the population confined to barracks, the result for physical retailers has been calamitous.
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AnalysisFrom e-bikes to pound shops: Meet the businesses filling gaps on the high street
While the pandemic continues to force many retailers to the wall, there are some old and new businesses still snapping up space. Retail Week meets those with ambitious store opening plans.
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GalleryStore gallery: Amazon opens first supermarket in Los Angeles
Amazon has opened the doors of its first Fresh supermarket in the latest push by the tech giant into food retail.
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NewsPret to cut almost 3,000 jobs as pandemic sets business back by a decade
Sandwich and coffee shop giant Pret A Manger is to axe 2,800 roles after sales fell back to the level of 10 years ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic decimated trading.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Will The Hut Group’s IPO float or sink?
The Hut Group has finally revealed its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange after many years of speculation. Retail Week analyses whether it will hit its punchy £4.5bn valuation and why it has chosen to attempt it now.
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NewsWaitrose launches tie-up with Deliveroo as it embarks on future without Ocado
Waitrose has announced a partnership with Deliveroo as it prepares its ecommerce arm for life without Ocado.
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Opinion‘Walmart’s TikTok interest is $30bn worth of evidence that retail has changed forever’
If ever something deserved an exclamation mark, it was the news that retail powerhouse Walmart hopes to snap up video-sharing social media network TikTok in a deal worth as much as $30bn.
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NewsBoohoo sold clothes from 18 suppliers paying less than minimum wage
Boohoo has been selling clothes from at least 18 suppliers which failed to prove they had been paying staff the minimum wage, according to reports from auditors.
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Opinion‘How to navigate the future of shopping on social media’
As Walmart and Microsoft make moves to buy TikTok, Lena Roland, managing editor, WARC Knowledge at WARC, sets out how businesses can navigate the challenges and seize new opportunities in the world of shoppable media
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OpinionNick Read: ‘Why the Post Office is putting store owners on our board’
The Post Office is unique. We are the UK’s largest retail network, with 11,500 branches, and the vast majority are run on a franchise basis by independent postmasters.
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