Following a catastrophic H1, Travis Perkins is on the mend, thanks to demand within the repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) sector. While the group experienced a subdued August, l-f-l sales...
The period from October to December, widely referred to as the golden quarter, is when many retailers plan to deliver…
UK supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that it cut down the prices of more than 200 of its own-label essential items. The move is part…
Amazon and California-based JL Childress have filed a lawsuit against 11 individuals for counterfeiting the latter’s products. JL Childress is a small family business that…
UK online retailer Boohoo’s share price recovered today due to investment by the executive team after the value fell by…
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has collaborated with experts at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ,…
E-commerce retailer Amazon has offered its employees work from home option until the end of June 2021. The decision comes…
Department store chain JCPenney has moved one step closer to its sale with the filing of a draft asset purchase…
Dunelm has made a comeback from its initial setback caused by the lockdown period with total group sales growing a staggering 36.7% to £359.1m in Q1 2020/21 against a strong…
US bookselling phenomenon Bookshop.org has revealed the board that will head its UK site, launching in November, timing the announcement to rain, however lightly, on Amazon’s Prime Day parade. Bookshop’s…
Tesco’s profit surge for the six months, ending in August, was not surprising but rather indicative of its efficient pricing policies and adequate capacity to meet a surge in demand…
Failure of Edinburgh Woollen Mill highlights peril of focus on older shoppers
The looming failure of Edinburgh Woollen Mill signals that retailers which are heavily reliant on an older demographic will struggle during the Covid-19 pandemic. Shoppers over the age of 65…