All The Entertainer articles – Page 2
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Technology strategy at The Entertainer
The retailer has invested consistently in its IT estate to make sure it can cope with growth, and to ensure it can evolve its offer as it takes the lead in the multichannel race.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Ecommerce at The Entertainer
Online is one of three pillars of growth for The Entertainer which has recently replatformed its website in partnership with LiveArea, creating a more refined customer journey for faster shopping, improved performance to support increasingly high levels of traffic and seasonal peaks and a new predictive search engine to help locate products.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Customer and marketing at The Entertainer
The Entertainer’s proposition is to supply quality products that offer everyday value for money to its customers. It purports to offer the best range of toys on the high street. Clearance or overstock items are also used to create excitement in-store through the use of discounts on such products.
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Retail Navigator People
Jeremy Cobbold
Chief supply chain and transformation officer at The Entertainer
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Supply chain at The Entertainer
There is a major focus on fulfilment in-store at The Entertainer, with a particular emphasis on its 30-minute click-and-collect option. The business believes that the fact shoppers can order an item on a smartphone and pick it up from a store 30 minutes later gives it an edge over retailers such as Amazon.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
The Entertainer (Outlook)
New leadership comes in the form of Andrew Murphy, who is set to join The Entertainer as its new chief executive in summer 2023. Murphy, whose career spans a number of decades at high-street stalwart John Lewis, will be looking to make his mark in his first chief executive position.
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Video
Retail Question Time with Gary Grant and Frances Bishop
As retailers prepare to reopen next month, toy retailer The Entertainer founder and chair Gary Grant and childrenswear specialist Pud Store founder Frances Bishop discuss their hopes and expectations, how consumers will behave and how their businesses have changed during the pandemic.
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Video
Watch: The Entertainer and NOTHS reveal trading trends from a ‘chaotic’ Christmas
Christmas 2020 was the most volatile retail has ever experienced. Leaders from The Entertainer, Notonthehighstreet, Openpay and Braze dissect the trading trends and what they mean for retail in 2021.
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Analysis
Tier four fears: Retail CEOs on shop closure ‘body blow’ and port delays
After the toughest of years, retailers were dealt another savage blow in the crucial final trading week ahead of Christmas.
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Gallery
In pictures: The retailers nailing the (Covid) Christmas experience
Christmas is looking quite different this year but retailers are innovating to keep the festive spirit alive both online and in-store. Retail Week highlights the retailers pulling out all the stops.
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News
Black Friday off to slow start as store closures depress spending
This year’s Black Friday is off to a slow start as non-essential store closures across much of the UK have seen payment volumes decrease year-on-year.
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Video
Watch: Christmas delivery a major challenge, says The Entertainer’s Gary Grant
The founder and executive chairman of The Entertainer said volumes were up nearly 500% during the first national lockdown and that the retailer is forward- planning to avoid the capacity and shipping challenges it faced during that period.
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Analysis
Analysis: The great Christmas stock shortage of 2020
While some retailers are concerned about store closures and reduced demand, others are more worried about having enough stock to get through the crucial Christmas period.
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News
Marks & Spencer adds Early Learning Centre to online brand stable
Marks & Spencer is to sell Early Learning Centre products on its website in its latest tie-up with a complementary brand to build online appeal.
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News
Entertainer boss’ fury at Westfield rent demand as lockdown begins
The Entertainer founder Gary Grant has reacted with anger and disbelief after lawyers acting on behalf of Westfield shopping centres demanded outstanding rent as his stores shut for the second lockdown.
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Opinion
‘Don’t forget about stores this ecommerce Christmas’
Almost £3bn in sales might shift online this Christmas, but don’t underestimate the draw of the store, writes Gemma Goldfingle
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Analysis
Nightmare before Christmas: bosses of John Lewis, M&S and The Entertainer on lockdown 2.0
It’s the news the industry dreaded. This Thursday so-called ‘non-essential’ retail will be shut down until December 2 in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus. Many fear chaos, but could click and collect come to the rescue?
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News
Currys PC World and The Entertainer extend pre-lockdown opening hours
Curry PC World and The Entertainer are both extending opening hours in the run-up to the closure of ‘non-essential’ stores on Thursday.
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Analysis
Life in lockdown: How retailers can manage an ecommerce Christmas
In the latest instalment of our Golden Quarter content series, where Retail Week delves into the trends and challenges of a very different Christmas trading period, we look at what retailers can do to deliver an ecommerce Christmas at a time when non-essential stores are forced to close.