Eleanor Smith
Eleanor Smith is an analytical journalist at Retail Week, focusing on financial and data analysis content. Eleanor joined from AO.com and previously spent three years as a research analyst working closely with the senior management team on propositional and technical developments for both its ecommerce and logistics undertakings.
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DataCoronavirus Consumer Pulse: Home, DIY and fashion online surge despite lockdown easing
Amid the coronavirus crisis, it has arguably never been more important, nor more difficult, for retailers to understand their customers.
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Data: Grocery out-of-stocks edge down as stockpiling eases
As lockdown restrictions begin to ease, data from Edge by Ascential shows that grocery retailers are starting to see more stable demand spread out throughout the week, helping them to better manage their online stock levels.
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Data: What search trends reveal about shopping in lockdown
As the retail industry edges slowly towards the resumption of business, online search data shows UK search habits have dramatically changed since the lockdown began. As well as seeking out essential goods, consumers have made the most of forced time at home to take up new hobbies and DIY projects.
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Data: Grocery promotional activity returns as availabilities stabilise
As the UK enters its seventh week of coronavirus lockdown, some grocers have cautiously introduced price promotions, but multibuys remain a thing of the past amid fears of stockpiling.
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Data: Grocery supply chains stretched by a second wave of stockpiling
As the UK enters its sixth week of lockdown, evidence has emerged of a second phase of consumers stocking up on essential items that may have run low over the last month.
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Data: Grocers remain challenged by high shopper demand for essential products
As the UK enters its fifth week of the coronavirus lockdown, sustained consumer demand for everyday and store-cupboard essentials remains a challenge to the grocers and their suppliers.
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Data: Shopper demand for Easter weekend groceries outstrips supply
As the coronavirus lockdown continues into its fourth week, there are signs that shopper demand and retailer supply is beginning to stabilise. Many retailers have now relaxed their item limits for customers shopping online and in-store.
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Data: Grocery stock levels stabilise but some unavailabilities grow
The huge efforts by the UK grocers and their suppliers are helping to bring out-of-stock levels under control, but there is still work to do. The latest data from Edge by Ascential shows unavailabilities across some categories increased over the past week and disparities between the ability of supermarkets to ...
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Data: Supply chain challenges start to ease as grocers step up to feed the nation
The enormous efforts made by grocers and their supply chain partners over the past week are helping to bring stock levels under control. Over the last two to three days in particular, the situation has shown signs of easing, according to the latest availability figures from Edge by Ascential.
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Data: How online demand has changed since coronavirus lockdown
As Next and TK Maxx suspend online operations, the latest data shows the UK’s online spending habits have shifted since the coronavirus lockdown began and are now skewed towards essential provisions and the home, garden and electricals categories.
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Data: Grocery out-of-stocks surge tenfold as bulk-buying intensifies
Figures from Edge by Ascential demonstrate the unprecedented demand that UK grocers have faced over the past month, as shopper behaviour has moved from top-up shopping to bulk-buying and stockpiling. This has led to high levels of out-of-stocks across ambient grocery, soap and household essentials.
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Data analysis: Opportunities and challenges for department stores
As John Lewis embarks upon a strategic review of its business and coronavirus hammers department store sales, Retail Week takes a deeper dive to investigate the challenges and opportunities across the UK department store sector.
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Data: The UK’s 15 most improved retailers for gender pay equality
Retail Week ranks the top-performing and most improved UK retailers for gender pay equality.
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Data: John Lewis results and what they mean for strategy
John Lewis Partnership is embarking on a strategic review under new chair Dame Sharon White after reporting “weaker profit than hoped for”. What does that mean for the department stores business and what can be expected over the next few years?
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Data: Grocery growth accelerates as shoppers stock up amid coronavirus fears
The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar show grocery spend in the 12 weeks to February 23 was up 0.7% year on year as consumers stocked up on essentials amid fears over coronavirus.
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Analysis: As supermarkets cut counters are they playing into discounters’ hands?
First Asda and now Tesco are cutting roles at bakeries and food counters, so are the days of such supermarket services numbered? Retail Week considers whether such changes will work or play into the discounters’ hands.
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Data: The world’s 100 largest retailers by revenue
Eighty-eight European companies made it into Deloitte’s Global Powers of Retailing ranking, which analysed the performance of the top 250 global retailers.
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Data: Amazon UK sales jump 23% to £13.4bn in 2019
Amazon in the UK outperformed the rest of the retail market and even its own international business to record a 20.7% jump in revenue to $17.53bn in the year to December 31, 2019. Converted into local currency, this means that UK sales soared by 23.2% to £13.4bn.
