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AnalysisPartnership update: White Company’s 24-hour pyjama delivery, Waitrose’s invisible delivery tags, and more
Welcome to Retail Week’s round-up of the latest innovative technology and supply chain tie-ups in retail.
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FeatureFuture Leaders 2025 - Who will be the CEOs of the future?
Meet 20 of UK retail’s most promising leaders-in-waiting. Every individual on our list has the talent, drive and passion to make it to the top, and they’re going to need it if they want to succeed in an industry dominated by crushing government regulation, devastating cyberattacks, harrowing tales of abuse from the shop floor and more. Here are British retail’s future chief executives, but who would want to be one?
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NewsNext closes in on Primark with surge in shopper purchase intent
The leading fashion retailer had the biggest increase in consumer purchase intent of any major brand in the retail sector over the past month, according to data from Kantar BrandDynamics
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Chart of the WeekCharts of the Week: How shoppers plan to use AI this holiday season and DIY momentum
Next week is Black Friday and, as we showed in one of our Charts of the Week last week, there are some signs that shoppers could be holding back to make some big purchases during the holiday season.
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NewsAmazon to run 12-day Black Friday event
Amazon will run its “Black Friday Week”, an event spanning 12 days of customer deals, in the UK.
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DataM&S tops Christmas ad YouTube views table so far
Data from YouTube UK’s Christmas Ads Leaderboard, shared exclusively with Retail Week, shows that Marks & Spencer’s ad tops the table six weeks before Christmas
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AnalysisCan pureplay retailers survive without stores?
There have been a host of online retailers launching into physical retailing as of late, with fast-fashion giant Shein gearing up to launch concessions across France this month, while Asos opens yet another pop-up ahead of the peak trading period.
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NewsAmazon earnings beat estimates thanks to cloud services
The tech firm’s share price jumped after publishing its results for the quarter ending September 30, 2025
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NewsAliExpress launches new scheme to match Amazon prices
Global online marketplace AliExpress has launched a new scheme to match and compete with Amazon’s prices.
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Opinion‘Amazon’s AI-driven job cuts will send a shiver through retail head offices’
The retail giant won’t be the last to axe roles – and white collar positions will be under threat, believes George MacDonald
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NewsAmazon confirms mass corporate job cuts
Amazon has confirmed it will axe thousands of jobs across its global corporate workforce.
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AnalysisIs GenAI useful on the backend? Amazon says yes
The technology firm was bullish on the potential for Generative AI at its Delivering the Future event in San Francisco last week.
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NewsAmazon unveils smart glasses for delivery drivers as part of AI push
The tech firm also announced two major new changes to its warehouse technology
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NewsDebenhams teams up with Amazon for Nasty Gal US launch
Debenhams Group, formerly Boohoo Group, has partnered with Amazon Fashion to launch Nasty Gal in the US.
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NewsTesco and Sainsbury’s go head-to-head over Amazon Fresh stores
Supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s are battling over a share of the spoils of the former Amazon Fresh convenience store estate, Retail Week understands.
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OpinionThe hidden pay-off of Amazon Fresh data and the future of in-store shopping
Amazon has a track record of turning apparent missteps into long-term advantages. It would be wrong to see the closure of Fresh stores as a straightforward failure, believes PSE Consulting’s Chris Jones
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NewsAmazon agrees $2.5bn settlement over claims it tricked Prime users
Amazon has reached a $2.5bn (£1.9bn) settlement with a US regulator following claims it tricked millions of customers into signing up to its Prime membership.
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Opinion‘The uncomfortable truth is AI will cause significant job destruction’
Communication and truth-telling, both to colleagues and the wider population, will become a central task of boards and governments in the coming years, believes True’s Matt Truman
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AnalysisWhy even the mighty Amazon couldn’t crack the UK grocery market
Amazon has called time on Fresh, its bricks-and-mortar grocery c-store chain. Retail Week analyses why the format never caught on in the UK and what it means for Amazon’s grocery ambitions in one of the world’s most competitive markets.
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NewsAmazon to shutter all Fresh stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk
Retail giant Amazon is set to close all 19 of its UK grocery Fresh stores putting some 250 jobs into consultation, Retail Week can reveal.