All Electricals articles – Page 12
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Opinion
Lockdown to scupper Black Friday bonanza – but all is not lost
Lockdown has put the dampeners on a Black Friday sales surge with consumers expected to spend 20% less during the discounting event this year, according to PwC.
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Analysis
Black Friday 2020 deal tracker: What promotions retailers are running
Deals are already under way for Black Friday 2020, which is predicted to be a bumper event for online retailers. Retail Week tracks the promotions being run by the UK’s biggest retailers this year.
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Analysis
Lockdown 2.0: The new regulations and how they affect your business
With England set to be plunged into a second lockdown from midnight tonight, Retail Week highlights the changes in the new government guidance and what they might mean for your business.
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News
Currys PC World and The Entertainer extend pre-lockdown opening hours
Curry PC World and The Entertainer are both extending opening hours in the run-up to the closure of ‘non-essential’ stores on Thursday.
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Analysis
Analysis: After the most unpredictable year ever, is the five-year strategy dead?
It’s difficult to know what’s going to happen next week, never mind next year. In this environment, can retail leaders work to five-year plans? Grace Bowden investigates.
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Analysis
Analysis: Which Covid trends are here to stay?
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended almost every part of society and few sectors have been more challenged than retail. Retail Week looks at some of the Covid-driven changes that will outlast even the virus.
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Analysis
From AO to The Entertainer and Deliveroo: who have the big four grocers partnered with?
The list of retailers and brands joining forces with the big four supermarkets has only grown in the eight months since the pandemic struck, with the likes of Deliveroo and Uber Eats, in particular, leveraging the growth in online.
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Analysis
Will retail descend into supply chain chaos this Christmas?
This year is expected to be an online Christmas like we’ve never seen before. But can retailers – and their couriers – cope with the expected delivery surge?
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Analysis
Social mobility champion: How AO is helping kids break into the digital economy
AO.com, and its charismatic founder John Roberts, are committed to doing what they can to promote social mobility and get young people into an area where businesses are still hiring: digital
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News
Sky set to launch network of ‘social hub’ high street stores
Sky is opening a network of high street stores for the first time, with its first outlet set to launch in Liverpool next week despite local lockdown restrictions.
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News
Store closures hit record levels as 11,000 shut in first half of 2020
A record number of stores closed during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus crisis hammered high streets, shopping centres and retail parks across the UK.
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News
Online sales growth slows despite new lockdown restrictions
While more lockdown restrictions were introduced across the UK in September, online sales growth normalised to pre-Covid levels.
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News
AO.com set for ‘biggest ever’ Christmas as interim sales soar
AO.com has delivered a strong rise in sales across both the UK and Germany as boss John Roberts says accelerated online sales amid Covid-19 have ‘emphasised our strengths’.
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News
AO ties up with Tesco to launch first store spaces
AO.com has joined forces with Tesco to launch its first ever physical retail format, Retail Week can reveal.
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News
Retail ‘will remain open’ under strictest local lockdowns, PM says
Retailers will be allowed to continue trading even under the strictest local lockdown measures coming into force on Wednesday.
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News
Dixons Carphone, AO.com and Walmart offer rival Prime Day Sales
Retailers including Dixons Carphone, AO.com and Walmart are all offering autumn Sales in competition with Amazon’s delayed Prime Day.
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Analysis
Deep dive: A Covid Christmas – how consumers will spend, shop and celebrate
Much like the rest of 2020, this Christmas will be like none in recent memory. With the country now in recession and the coronavirus pandemic still restricting many aspects of people’s lives, Retail Week asks how, where and on what shoppers are likely to spend this Golden Quarter, along with insights and predictions from leading retailers and industry analysts.
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Opinion
‘Whisper it for now, but retail is on the road to recovery’
One would be forgiven for thinking retail was on its proverbial deathbed given some of the media coverage of the past few days.
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Data
League table: Who have been Covid’s retail winners and losers?
Retail is in the midst of one of the most challenging periods in its history as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across the industry.
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Analysis
Analysis: How coronavirus has hindered social mobility in retail
The coronavirus pandemic has led to job losses and stemmed career progression across retail, but it seems that young people and those on low incomes have been the hardest hit. Rosie Shepard reports.