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NewsQatar sovereign wealth fund dumps stake in Sainsbury’s
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is set to dump a significant chunk of its stake in grocery giant Sainsbury’s, ending its nearly two decades-long run as the businesses’ largest shareholder.
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Chart of the WeekChart of the Week: Breaking down the UK’s £9.1bn social commerce spend
Selling via social media apps like TikTok Shop and Instagram will drive £9.1bn in revenue for non-food retailers in the UK over 2025, new research from Retail Economics and social commerce platform Unbox.
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FeatureFuture Leaders 2025 - Who will be the CEOs of the future?
Meet 20 of UK retail’s most promising leaders-in-waiting. Every individual on our list has the talent, drive and passion to make it to the top, and they’re going to need it if they want to succeed in an industry dominated by crushing government regulation, devastating cyberattacks, harrowing tales of abuse from the shop floor and more. Here are British retail’s future chief executives, but who would want to be one?
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NewsDeliveroo becomes first delivery platform to offer Nectar points
Deliveroo has become the first delivery platform to roll out Nectar, one of the UK’s largest loyalty card programmes.
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NewsSainsbury’s ups profit guidance to over £1bn
Sainsbury’s expects its underlying operating profit for the year will be more than £1bn, following strong summer sales and cost savings.
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Chart of the WeekWhere will people watch Christmas ads this year?
A new poll by Kantar unsurprisingly shows that more people are excited about watching ads on social channels, but Brits are just as excited as last year about watching ads on TV
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VideoSainsbury’s brings back the BFG for 2025 Christmas ad
Sainsbury’s has debuted its 2025 Christmas ad, with the return of children’s book character the BFG.
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NewsGrocery giants make rates plea to chancellor in bid to tame inflation
Leading grocers have written to chancellor Rachel Reeves, setting out the case for excluding shops from the planned business rates surtax.
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Chart of the WeekChart: How festive recruitment numbers compare to last year
Tesco leads the table of festive recruiters, but the change in John Lewis numbers shows how the retailer is focusing on stores this Christmas
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NewsSainsbury’s and Boots unveil festive recruitment targets
Retail giants Boots and Sainsbury’s have both unveiled their Christmas recruitment targets, as the sector braces for the busiest trading period of the year.
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NewsTesco and Sainsbury’s go head-to-head over Amazon Fresh stores
Supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s are battling over a share of the spoils of the former Amazon Fresh convenience store estate, Retail Week understands.
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Opinion‘Marks & Spencer is gearing up to make peak go with a bang’
After the cyber attack on M&S in the spring, it looks as if the retailer is ready to go all-out to be a Christmas winner, believes George MacDonald
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AnalysisExplainer: Implications of Sainsbury’s surprise on-off Argos sale talks
In the space of a weekend, it was revealed that Sainsbury’s was considering selling its Argos general merchandise division to Chinese colossus JD.com, and then that talks were over. Retail Week examines the implications
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NewsSainsbury’s ends discussions with JD.com over Argos sale
Sainsbury’s has confirmed that discussions over a potential sale of Argos have ended with Chinese giant JD.com.
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NewsSainsbury’s rolls out facial recognition tech to stem rising crime
Sainsbury’s has rolled out facial recognition technology in some of its stores in a bid to increase staff and customer safety.
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NewsChatGPT shopping agent falters on half of UK’s big four grocers
Shoppers using ChatGPT’s new agent to complete their online shopping may run into technical difficulties on half of the UK’s ‘big four’ supermarkets, Retail Week has found.
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AnalysisChatGPT agent mode on trial: how Sainsbury’s, Wickes and more handle AI as a customer
Most retailers aren’t yet ready to be shopped by customers using an AI agent. At least, that’s what our test of ChatGPT’s Agent mode showed when Retail Week put it through its paces on some typical shopping missions.
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NewsSupermarkets at risk of closing as a result of business rates rise
More than 100 supermarkets run by big grocers could shut because of government plans to increase business rates, piling futher costs on the industry.
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NewsFormer BP convenience boss takes new role at Sainsbury’s
Former BP and Boots executive Tracey Clements has taken up a new role at grocery giant Sainsbury’s, as part of a wider shake-up of the supermarket chain’s senior team.
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Opinion‘Unless Amazon wants to remain a bit-part player in UK grocery, an acquisition would be the likely route’
Amazon’s UK grocery presence amounts to a pimple on an elephant’s backside so, if it wants to grow, a deal would be the obvious option, believes Shore Capital’s Clive Black