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NewsletterTech & Digital Briefing: One last hope for big festive spending
Santa is nearly embarking on his annual round-the-world trip and retail will also hopefully get a present under the tree this week. While retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Aldi, Home Bargains, Pets at Home and Wickes are shutting up shop on Boxing Day, Adobe predicts many consumers will shop ...
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NewsletterIntelligence Briefing: Reasons to be cheerful
This is my last newsletter of 2025 and, as promised last week, I wanted to end my coverage for the year with a few reasons to be cheerful. 1. The economic gods have charmingly lined up with my content plan and delivered a faster-than-expected drop in inflation yesterday and, almost ...
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Tech & Digital Briefing: Introducing our new piece of content, āTest driveā
Iād like to introduce you to our new piece of content āTest driveā which launched today (eek!). Every month, the team will trial a new tool, service or innovation in retail and we have kicked off with Not On The High Streetās AI shopping tool. It aims to help customers ...
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NewsletterIntelligence Briefing: Unhappy November; new Christmas forecast
What is it going to take to get the British consumer out of this funk? Since last week, weāve been receiving a series of gloomy November numbers (we will get the final verdict on the month once the ONS releases its retail sales volumes next Friday). Letās start with Black ...
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Tech & Digital Briefing: Best of Black Friday, partnership update and virtual try-ons
Chart of the Week was very golden quarter-focused, as data from Retail Economics revealed social commerce sales are expected to hit Ā£2.4bn over the Christmas period. The social platform revealed its highest-ever Black Friday sales too, mostly thanks to live shopping and the calibre of new retailers setting up shop. ...
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NewsletterIntelligence Briefing: Black Friday performance; Charting Ā£9.1bn in social commerce; and more
Cyber Week is through and my colleague Megan Robinson has done a fantastic job of gathering together everything data providers have said about performance so far. The headline online spending stats come from Adobe: Black Friday - Ā£1.16bn (+4% year-over-year) Saturday November 29 - Ā£762.6m (+7.3%) Sunday November 30 - ...
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Tech & Digital Briefing: Big week for retail ends with all-important Black Friday weekend
Itās been a big week for retail as the industry braced for the Budget as well as Black Friday. With consumer confidence low and Black Friday now being more of a month-long occasion, hope for big spending was drifting away. Many started offering deals and discounts well in advance on ...
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NewsletterIntelligence Briefing: Budget reaction; Black Friday tomorrow
Rachel Reevesā present for the retail sector yesterday was a lot of complicated maths. The chancellor set out the governmentās plan for business rates next year, while later in the afternoon the Valuation Office Agency released its draft list of rateable values for next year. Quick reminder: rateable values are ...