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AnalysisDo Tesco’s Google+ consultations signal a move to online personalisation services?
Retail Week investigates whether one-to-one online consultations are an engaging personalisation tool for customers, or simply a marketing stunt.
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AnalysisPoundstretcher revamps stores and strategy as it bids to gain market share
Retail Week speaks to Poundstretcher’s managing director Ian York about the discount retailer’s new strategy and expansion plans.
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OpinionBlog: Information is vital to reducing abandoned baskets
New research from Hermes suggests providing consumers with more information before checkout could reduce the number of abandoned baskets.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Shop Direct launches Very Exclusive site as it seeks to 'democratise' luxury
Shop Direct’s new Very Exclusive site offers consumers a host of luxury brands on credit. Retail Week speaks to chief executive Alex Baldock.
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OpinionComment: Stores will rise again as Amazon’s drone dream is downed
Local high street stores will need to be front and centre of the convenience revolution as Amazon’s drone delivery service is derailed.
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OpinionNick Bubb’s verdict: Sports Direct - smoothing over the cracks?
Ahead of today’s update, the City worried that cracks were appearing in Sports Direct’s edifice, but they have been smoothed over.
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AnalysisVideo: Cantor Fitzgerald's Mike Dennis - is John Allan the right chair for Tesco?
Cantor Fitzgerald food analyst Mike Dennis asks whether John Allan knows the grocery retail sector well enough.
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OpinionComment: What can retailers learn from the Christmas trading period?
The Christmas trading period has offered retailers valuable lessons on customer expectation, supply chain and fulfilment.
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AnalysisSeven reasons why retailers need to support the UK textiles industry
Paul Short, chair of the N Brown Textiles Growth Programme, tells Retail Week why retailers need to support the UK textiles industry.
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OpinionComment: How the Super Bowl turns views into purchases
Shoppable advertisements and promotions aired during the Super Bowl demonstrate how retail boundaries are being blurred.
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AnalysisIs paperless engagement with customers the future for retailers?
As more retailers look towards mobile to interact with customers, what are the benefits of moving away from paper to digital engagement?
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AnalysisInfographic: What causes the most complaints in retail?
Retail has been named as the most complained about sector in the UK. Find out what regions complain the most and what most riles consumers.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How will smartphones change the in-store experience?
To date, online retail has been far more advanced than the high street in using analytics to transform the customer experience.
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OpinionComment: Homage to Catalonia’s remarkable retail arena
At the heart of Barcelona’s vibrant retail scene department store El Corte Inglés is a monument to shopping in the modern era.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Cautious optimism in uncertain times for the retail sector
Retail 2015, produced by Retail Week in association with Kurt Salmon, reveals what industry chiefs really think about prospects for 2015.
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OpinionComment: Are Waitrose’s January results a sign of things to come?
If Waitrose’s recent results are any guide life in the supermarket industry seems to have got a bit tougher again since Christmas.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What does McNamara’s departure mean for Tesco’s tech future?
Chief information officer Mike McNamara is the latest executive to leave Tesco, but where does this leave it in terms of IT and technology?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Do Amazon stores signal the death of the pure-play?
As Amazon reportedly prepares to buy RadioShack stores, Retail Week examines whether this is the end of pure-play etailing.
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AnalysisIn the news: Incoming Foyles chief executive Paul Currie
Incoming Foyles boss Paul Currie has ambitious plans for the bookseller and believes its ecommerce offer could eclipse its bricks-and-mortar business.
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OpinionComment: Ocado’s first annual pre-tax profit is tribute to Tim Steiner
It still starts with an o and it ends in an o, but at last online grocer Ocado has recorded a full-year statutory profit.