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OpinionComment: How sustainable is Black Friday as a retail event?
Black Friday is a big date in the retail calendar. But as sales start earlier and discounting becomes normal will sales fatigue kick in?
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AnalysisIn pictures: Collect+ Retail Week Enterprise Awards winners
The Retail Week Enterprise Awards celebrated all things entrepreneurial at the ceremony last night, highlighting retail’s most exciting new businesses.
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OpinionComment: Cyber Monday will be bigger than Black Friday in the UK
As Black Friday approaches, Amazon and others are preparing for Cyber Monday, perhaps the biggest day in the UK online retail calendar.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Twitter’s ‘buy’ button needs to win consumer trust to succeed
Twitter’s ‘buy’ button allows customers to make purchases directly through the social media website, but will customers use it?
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OpinionComment: Online shoppers are ready for a connected Christmas
With Christmas fast approaching, the wonderful and sometimes weird internet of things will change how people live and shop.
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AnalysisMothercare's interim results: What the analysts say
Maternity specialist Mothercare, which new chief executive Mark Newton-Jones aims to turn around, has posted first-half numbers.
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AnalysisStart-up of the week: Native retail app platform Poq Studio
The number of start-ups in retail technology is growing quickly and Retail Week is highlighting some of the best. This week, app platform Poq Studio is in the spotlight.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Mothercare’s turnaround efforts start to gain traction
Mothercare’s turnaround efforts seem to be gaining traction as the retailer’s underlying pre-tax profit jumped 65% to £3.3m in the first half.
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OpinionComment: As Asda’s sales decline, could the golden era of grocery be over?
Despite growth in convenience and online retail, the big four grocers continue to struggle to maintain share in a competitive market.
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OpinionComment: Investing in retail is increasingly about technology investment
Virtually every list of tech start–ups includes a high proportion of enterprises aimed at the retail sector, mobile or ecommerce.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Adapting to change major priority for supply chain bosses
Retail Week’s latest Supply Chain report in association with DWF LLP is packed full of exclusive findings on the challenges and opportunities supply chain bosses face in 2014 and beyond.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why Asda's quarterly sales decline won't knock it off course
Asda rocked the market yesterday when it reported falling sales after two quarters of growth. But it is determined to stick to its plan.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Inside Shop Direct’s user experience lab and experimental culture
Shop Direct’s user experience lab has revolutionised how the retailer manages its sites – how has the ecommerce team done it?
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OpinionBryan Roberts: Sainsbury's new strategic plan is a tipping point for UK grocery
A very overused cliché, but today might come to be seen as a tipping point in the evolution of the UK grocery sector.
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OpinionComment: Three clever omnichannel ways to combat showrooming
Some savvy global bricks and mortar retailers are finding creative ways to recapture sales lost to online competitors. It’s just a matter of fine-tuning online and in-store offerings.
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AnalysisPeople: What skills does the Tesco board need to succeed?
The role of the board of directors has been brought into sharp focus in recent weeks by the accounting scandal at Tesco, and the coming weeks will be crucial for the retailer.
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OpinionComment: Why customer relationship management is no longer enough
Customer relationship management (CRM) is too focused on transactions and now retailers must build two-way relationships.
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OpinionComment: What is Shop Direct’s secret to ecommerce success?
Following Shop Direct’s latest pre-tax profits increase, how has the etailer gone from a catalogue company to digital department store?
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AnalysisInternational news analysis: Alibaba is living up to the hype
Alibaba’s first trading statement since its IPO has created a stir, with the quarter to the end of September surpassing expectation.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Has Marks & Spencer at last turned the corner?
Last week’s interims gave grounds for optimism that M&S is getting back on course, but the retailer is not quite there yet.