Eleanor Smith
Eleanor Smith was 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. Eleanor was also involved with Retail Week's Be Inspired programme.
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DataRanking: From Halfords to The Hut Group – how Covid has boosted and battered retail share prices
Two years after the UK was plunged into its first national lockdown, Retail Week analyses how the Covid crisis has impacted the valuations of Britain’s listed retailers.
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Ranking: The top 50 most vibrant retail locations
The impact of the pandemic means local and commuter towns have dominated the ranking of the healthiest shopping locations for the second consecutive year – but city centres have seen a strong recovery.
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Analysis: Aldi vs Lidl – which discounter will take the edge in grocery’s next price war?
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Aldi and Lidl’s sales soared as cash-strapped customers switched. With the UK now facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in 30 years, which of the discounters is best placed to benefit?
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League table: The UK’s busiest retail websites – Christmas 2021
Amazon and eBay emerged as the most-visited retail websites in the UK during the crucial Christmas period.
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League table: The UK’s busiest retail websites – Black Friday 2021
The shape of Black Friday changed dramatically this year, as what has traditionally been a predominantly online event drove shoppers back into physical stores.
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Data: Golden quarter trading tracker – weekly online and footfall trends
The golden quarter is well underway. Our weekly updates enable you to take the temperature of trading online and in bricks-and-mortar locations week by week during this crucial period.
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Data: Black Friday sales outlook bleak as discounts span whole month
Black Friday sales are likely to be down this year against strong comparables in 2020.
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Data: From potato milk to ‘climatarianism’- Waitrose unveils the biggest food trends of 2022
Waitrose & Partners’ latest Food and Drink Report highlights the emergence of new dairy alternative products and even more climate-conscious consumers as some of the key trends in food for next year.
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Store gallery: Russian discounter Mere takes off with first UK store
Mere, the discount supermarket chain that claims to be the ‘Russian Lidl’, has opened its first ever UK store in Preston, Lancashire.
- Be Inspired
What can retailers do to meaningfully support transgender customers and employees?
Pride Month may be over, but the work needed to create real change is not. Retail Week analytical journalist Eleanor Smith asks, if equality isn’t contentious, why are trans identities?
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Data: The future of Asos and Boohoo
Asos and Boohoo are amongst the largest names in online fashion, and both outperformed competitors to achieve strong growth through an extremely tough period that was initially described as “a real existential crisis for the fashion industry”.
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Data: The full impact of Covid-19 on retail footfall in 2020
Springboard has published its annual footfall review for 2020 and the figures drive home the catastrophic effect coronavirus had on all retail venues.
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League table: The UK’s busiest retail websites – Christmas 2020
Marketplace giants Amazon and eBay dominated the battle to attract online shoppers over the crucial Christmas trading period, new data has revealed.
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Data: Covid job crisis deepens as major retailers swing the axe
Retail job losses have accelerated in 2020 as the coronavirus crisis batters the sector.
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Coronavirus Consumer Pulse: Web traffic spikes ahead of second lockdown
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: The retail sectors capturing footfall since stores reopened
Footfall is slowly returning to retail destinations following the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, but which sectors are capitalising on that traffic and enticing customers into their stores? Springboard data shared exclusively with Retail Week reveals the sectors that are emerging as the winners and losers.
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Marketplace melee: Amazon vs eBay vs Shopify – who won in the pandemic?
Retail Week examines the three big marketplaces’ second-quarter results to understand who traded best over the tumultuous coronavirus lockdown period.
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Analysis: Has Ocado’s ecommerce promise failed to deliver during coronavirus?
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic totally reshaping the way people shop for groceries and pushing hundreds of thousands of consumers online, how has the UK’s only pureplay grocer really fared in lockdown?
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Data: New forecasts for the post-pandemic retail landscape
New data from Edge by Ascential shows a vastly changed outlook for retail channels across the UK as the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically altered the retail landscape and consumer spending habits.
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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.
