All Customer articles – Page 16
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News
AO to recruit 250 customer service staff after raising salaries by 20%
AO is looking to recruit more than 250 people to its customer service team after raising the pay of contact centre agents by over 20% in the past 12 months.
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News
Retail sales growth slows as bank holidays fail to get consumers spending
Retail sales increased but sales growth slowed to its “lowest level in six months” as the three bank holidays in May failed to get consumers spending.
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Retail Voice
Four next-gen CX lessons learned by industry leaders
Did Covid kill in-store retail? Informatica’s Tim Davies investigates how retailers can deliver a first-class customer experience post-pandemic
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Innovation of the Week
Innovation of the Week: H&M invests in materials science company Kintra Fibers
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our analysts.
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Interview
The Sosandar sorority: Co-chiefs Julie Lavington and Ali Hall on the power of partnership
Meet Sosandar co-chief executives Julie Lavington and Ali Hall, the former fashion magazine outfit who started the rapidly growing etailer, both in sales and reputation
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Analysis
Strategy spotlight: Five ways Frasers Group aims to elevate its proposition
In 2021/22, Frasers Group’s total sales climbed 32.5% to £4.8bn for the 52 weeks to 24 April, 2022, and it recorded pre-tax profits of £335.6m.
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News
Asos launches incubator to ‘bridge gap’ for ethnic minority-owned brands
Asos has teamed up with The Fashion Minority Report to launch ScaleUP, a new programme to “help bridge the gap between the fashion industry and ethnic minority-owned brands”.
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Data
May footfall rises on the back of three bank holidays
Retail footfall in May increased as shoppers took advantage of the three bank holidays last month.
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Opinion
‘Government should forget food price caps and let shopkeepers shopkeep’
The latest government idea to combat the cost-of-living crisis is so outlandish that it might have been formulated on Neptune, the furthest planet from Earth, rather than in Downing Street
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News
Government price cap plans ‘will not make a jot of difference’, BRC warns
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has warned that the latest government plans to introduce price caps on basic food items in a bid to tackle the cost-of-living crisis will “not make a jot of difference to prices”.
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News
Food inflation eases but prices still lingering at near record highs
Food inflation in the UK slowed from April’s record-breaking rise – but was still up by more than 15% year on year in May.
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Analysis
Exclusive survey: How much do customers trust you with their data?
We asked consumer research agency Walnut to quiz more than 2,000 shoppers across the UK about how much they trust the nations’ supermarkets with their data – and the results are in
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Innovation of the Week
Innovation of the Week: Lululemon supports female athletes with Further research initiative
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our analysts.
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News
Majestic relaunches subscription service to help customers with cost-of-living crisis
Majestic Wine has relaunched its Lock It In subscription proposition for customers struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
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News
Sainsbury’s unveils Stamford Street value range rebrand
Sainsbury’s announced today that it has rebranded its value range to the new name Stamford Street.
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Data
UK retail sales return to growth in April despite inflation
Despite pressure from inflation, UK retail sales rebounded in April, according to the ONS.
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News
UK inflation takes a dip but food prices peak
UK inflation fell in April, but food inflation remained at an all-time high as prices of essentials peaked.
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Analysis
Temu: The value-led ecommerce app with Shein and Amazon in its sights
Chinese-owned marketplace Temu has taken the ecommerce world by storm since launching last year but what do we know about the platform? As Temu finds its feet in the UK, Retail Week explores how it has been achieving rapid global growth
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Data
One in four online baskets abandoned at checkout costing retailers £32bn
One in four online transactions is being abandoned by customers at checkout amounting to £32bn in the last 12 months, according to the latest research from GFS and Retail Economics.
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News
Robert Dyas launches new loyalty scheme
Robert Dyas has launched a new loyalty scheme, MyDyas, to help customers as the cost-of-living crisis continues.