All articles by George MacDonald – Page 7
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NewsBoohoo swoops on Karen Millen and Coast but jobs axed
Online fashion giant Boohoo has bought the Karen Millen and Coast brands for £18.2m.
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Tesco to cut 4,500 jobs at Metro stores
Tesco has revealed plans to make operational changes at Metro stores and a small number of Express branches, which are expected to lead to 4,500 job losses.
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Marks & Spencer strategy director to head Ocado Retail
Marks Spencer strategy director Melanie Smith has been named chief executive of Ocado Retail.
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Flying Tiger calls time on store openings after profits hit
Flying Tiger Copenhagen has halted UK store openings after a plunge in profits.
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Naked Wines aims for Nasdaq stock exchange listing
Naked Wines is understood to be considering a listing on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange following last week’s sale of its Majestic Wine business.
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Store gallery: Marks & Spencer unveils fresh-look food hall
Marks Spencer has launched a new-look food hall designed to better showcase its full range.
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John Lewis seeks blueprint to reconcile robots and humans
Department stores and grocery group John Lewis Partnership aims to find a formula for how robots and people should best interact as machines become ever more prominent participants in everyday life.
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Analysis
Greggs adds evening meals and multichannel to the menu
Food retailer Greggs has served up a fresh business model in recent years.
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Wish.com valued at $11bn in new fundraising
Mobile shopping specialist Wish has completed a new round of fundraising valuing it at $11.2bn.
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Marks & Spencer offers discount to shoppers bringing own lunch box
Marks Spencer has launched a scheme incentivising customers to bring their own reusable containers when shopping at its Market Place food-to-go counters.
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Analysis
Analysis: The weird and wonderful world of Wish.com
Great search functionality? Not really. Big-name brands? Not so many, although growing. Speed-of-light fulfilment? Definitely not. Why exactly is Wish.com the most downloaded app in the world?
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Opinion
Leader: Who will dare challenge Mike Ashley?
Whatever else he may be, Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley is commendably plain-spoken.
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Sainsbury’s eyes delivery tie-up with Uber Eats
Sainsbury’s has held talks with Uber Eats about launching a delivery service enabling customers to order convenience staples.
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Hammerson hit by retail CVAs and administrations
Rental income at retail property giant Hammerson’s top destinations has slid as retailers’ woes undermined performance.
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Primark demands rent cuts as rivals benefit from CVAs
Primark is calling on landlords to slash rents by 30% as other retailers cut their property costs through CVAs.
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House of Fraser closures loom as Ashley’s Sports Direct takes hit
Sports Direct has laid bare the scale of problems at House of Fraser, the department store business it bought out of administration last year, as it posted a fall in full-year earnings.
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Debenhams boss reassures staff amid Sports Direct results fiasco
Debenhams executive chairman Terry Duddy has told staff that speculation about an administration is “misplaced” and that attempts involving Sports Direct to derail a turnaround will not divert its strategy.
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Watch: Is Boris Johnson as PM good or bad for retail?
Following Boris Johnson entering Downing Street and promising to deliver Brexit by October 31 “do or die”, the team debate what impact the new prime minister will have on retailers.
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Opinion
Leader: Confidence counts as retail faces up to tough times
Think what you like about Boris Johnson, but there’s something to be said for a can-do attitude.
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Analysis
Coping with the ‘rent of online’ – customer acquisition costs
Bricks-and-mortar retailers may lament rent and business rates, but etailers have their own overheads: customer acquisition costs – and they are spiralling. George MacDonald investigates how they are coping with this digital overhead.
