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31 July 2020
Amazon trials food retailing with its offer of free deliveries
Amazon is trialling the online grocery delivery service with free delivery on orders over £40 to Prime members in 300 postcodes in London and the south-east of England. Amazon is...
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30 July 2020
Retail sales bounce back: Is it time to be optimistic?
UK retail sales bounced back, close to pre-Covid-19 levels, revealing the desire for British consumers to get back to business as usual. The key to targeting this group will be...
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28 July 2020
Wickes’ performance hampered by late store reopenings
The pandemic continues to throttle Travis Perkins as group sales declined £704m to £2,780m in H1 2020, dragged down by its plumbing & heating and merchanting businesses where sales dropped...
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28 July 2020
Amazon looks to expand UK food retail operations
Amazon will offer UK Prime members free delivery on groceries as it seeks to establish a foothold in the food retail market. The area will span 300 postcodes, predominantly in...
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23 July 2020
Covid-19 lockdown boosts online direct-to-consumer opportunities for small grocery businesses
Among the casualties of Covid-19 have been small grocery businesses, many serving local foodservice markets. These have faced a sudden disappearance of a core revenue stream during lockdown and the...
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23 July 2020
FMCG companies need to openly address problematic racial stereotyping in branding
The impact, both in the United States as well as internationally, of the Black Lives Matter movement, the wider prevalence of entrenched racism and need to confront it more systematically,...
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22 July 2020
Strong Kingfisher results show consumers yet to tire of home improvements
Kingfisher reports a strong performance for its Q2 to date (11 weeks to 18 July), boosted by ongoing elevated demand for home improvement as consumers stay home and the phased...
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16 July 2020
Imperative store sale endangers EssilorLuxotica acquisition of Grandvision
EU demands apply extra pressure on the already beleaguered merger amid pandemic. Regulatory clearance for $7.2bn merger between key players in the eyewear industry, subject to the sale of Ray-Ban...
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13 July 2020
Bensons to sleep more soundly now it is free of tired Harveys
Harveys & Bensons were the latest dominos to fall in the challenging furniture market, both entering administration last month. While Bensons has been re-acquired by Alteri Investors in a pre-pack,...
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9 July 2020
UK consumers will favour online marketplaces for second-hand purchases following COVID-19
Shoppers are still happy to purchase second-hand despite hygiene concerns following the outbreak of COVID-19. According to GlobalData’s recent monthly survey (conducted in early June), more than half (58.9%) of...