Retail Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2024

Asda owners the billionaire Issa brothers are trialling a four-day week at the supermarket in a bid to crack down on a revolt among disgruntled store managers. As the grocery giant faces challenges from cost cuts and cultural concerns, it hopes hopes the move will mend relationships with managers who are “leaving in their droves”.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 13, 2024

Asda workers at its Brighton Hollingbury superstore have announced strike dates over the Bank Holiday weekend, following industrial action at its Gosport, Wisbech and Lowestoft sites. GMB Union members at the supermarket are set to walk out over the weekend of 24 and 25 May, according to the trade union.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 2, 2024

Pets at Home has signed a new multi-year partnership with media and entertainment group Global as it bags a prime-time sponsorship slot on Heart Radio. As part of the partnership, Pets at Home has access to Global’s comprehensive portfolio, including audio, outdoor and its presenters.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 1, 2024

JD Sports has requested all head office employees based around the world return to the office at least four days a week. The new policy, effective July 1, will impact employees at the sports giant’s UK head office in Bury, Retail Week reported.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 19, 2024

Morrisons has shaken up its flexible working policy at its Bradford head office. Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning It is understood that the Saturday work day had not been popular among the 2,000 staff based at its West Yorkshire head office.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 18, 2024

Barbour has partnered with Oxfam to launch a charity rental scheme at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Customers will then have the chance to return their wax jackets at the end of the festival or purchase it in full. The premium brand’s jackets will be sold for £45 each for the full weekend rental.

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Hyken

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This week we feature an article by Alp Pekkocak who leads the industry and product marketing for Media & Entertainment at Salesforce. Retaining subscribers with engaging content and personalized experiences is key to building revenue and driving long-term success. . Seamlessly onboard your subscribers.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2024

Morrisons is set to cut almost 300 jobs as part of a management restructure of its logistics operations. The supermarket chain is looking to consolidate the number of warehouse manager roles at each of its seven distribution centres under a single operations manager role, The Grocer reported.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Systems administrators in enterprise companies who are constantly upgrading, repurposing, and managing thousands of switches, listen up! gRPC provides the infrastructure to build a device management service to exchange configuration and operational data between a client and a server. Subscribe to the Networking blog.

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Cisco Retail

MARCH 11, 2022

Earlier this year, Cisco launched new features to simplify the experience for partners offering Managed SD-WAN and end customers who use a Managed SD-WAN solution. It’s easier than ever to deploy and manage the entire SD-WAN fabric through a more intuitive user experience. Multitenancy support. Automated reporting.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

River Island has hired Boohoo Group’s MD for Karen Millen, Oasis, Coast and Warehouse Jane Eskriett and Next Europe and North Africa sourcing boss Richard Grainger as new co-managing directors. ” The trio head up a relatively new senior team at the fashion retailer.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 25, 2024

Ted Baker’s European arm is at risk of entering administration , putting 149 roles at risk of redundancy. The businesses operating the fashion retailer’s physical retail locations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain are at risk, with the process depending on each country’s systems, Drapers reports.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lidl is to close its Walsall warehouse, placing 100 jobs at risk, as it no longer meets its “operational requirements” The discounter has entered a consultation period with those impacted by the closure and is offering staff members the option between redundancy or redeployment when it closes in 12 months.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

According to The Telegraph, it seems the German retail chain may also be at risk of calling in administrators. However, as the SportScheck owner scrambles to preserve cash, sources said that suppliers were hesitant to do business with the retailer and that management may need to call in administrators as early as Monday.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 8, 2024

The fashion and food retailer will increase its store size by 11,500 sq ft to 100,000 sq ft at the retail park, which is owned by The Crown Estate, as it moves into the vacant unit adjacent to its current store. Work is currently underway at the site and is expected to be complete in the autumn, with the store remaining open throughout.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 25, 2024

The employee-owned retailer told partners this week it was halving its current two-week redundancy pay per year of service policy as it was “higher than typical market practice and comes at a very high cost”. The Waitrose owner offers “partnership redundancy pay” on top of statutory pay, which is set by the government.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Poundland owner Pepco has reshuffled its management team and issued its second profit warning in three weeks as it continues to witness an “increasingly challenging trading environment” across Central and Eastern Europe.

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Cisco Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

When I’m waiting at a red traffic signal I remember one of her many sayings “If it’s fur ye, it’ll nae gae past ye”, roughly translated as “if it’s for you, it won’t go past you.” At traffic signals everybody loves a green light because it means “go”. For example, at point 2, the traveler might switch from local bus to commuter rail.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Staff at nine Asda supermarkets in London have approached the GMB union as they consider strike action in a dispute about working conditions. The news comes as Asda union staff at the supermarkets Wisbech, Brighton Hollingbury and Brighton Marina currently vote on whether to strike.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 19, 2024

Hundreds of Waitrose customer service workers at a key outsourcer that previously faced redundancy are no longer at risk. The John Lewis Partnership, which also owns Waitrose, was reported back in February to be planning to reduce the number of staff it employs at customer service provider Foundever as it looked to streamline costs.

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365 Retail

JANUARY 27, 2024

LG Electronics (LG) is set to unveil its innovative cloud solution platform, LG Business Cloud, at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024. The convenient, new platform allows business customers to browse and subscribe to LG digital signage cloud solutions and manage them all remotely.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Yesterday, in an exclusive virtual event for Inside Retail subscribers, Charlene Perera, general manager for Hush Puppies and Clarks and Jean Thomas, chief marketing officer at on-trend womenswear brand Pomelo Fashion discussed the future of retail across the APAC region. Missed out?

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 8, 2024

The sports retailer will open a 29,000 sq ft store at Westfield London in White City and a 28,000 sq ft location at Westfield Stratford next year. Frasers Group is set to open two new Sports Direct flagships in London’s Westfield shopping centres as it continues the roll-out of the brand’s elevated stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2022

Subscriptions can be tricky business, not least because most consumers at one time or another have had a bad experience with a subscription service. That has not stopped consumers from subscribing though, especially with the rise of new takes on the model (box services, auto shipping and streaming TV, to name just a few).

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There remains an overarching theme that touches on all these topics—reimagining how IT manages the enterprise network and beyond to branches, cloud, and internet-connected applications. Managing all these connections at scale adds tremendous responsibility to the IT teams to ensure optimal application experience for the workforce.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

Superdry marketing manager Matthew Iozzi expects the move will see the platform open up to a larger audience, including brands, “in the hopes of providing opportunities for brands to secure yet another conversation channel with consumers” and that the platform could continue to benefit from lockdowns as brands seek to connect with consumers online.

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Indigo 9 Digital

DECEMBER 7, 2022

By Tricia McKinnon While Amazon makes running an eCommerce business look easy, managing online sales is anything but easy. Consumers often don’t feel comfortable buying pants or a shirt just by looking at a picture alone. You may be a size 10 at lululemon and a size 12 at Athleta. Then there’s colour. Loyalty programs.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 9, 2024

The renewed commitment follows the opening of Inditex brands Bershka and Pull&Bear – in a regional first – at Bullring last year. Hammerson Director of Asset Management Toby Tait said: “The strategic repositioning of Bullring & Grand Central has seen us introduce key brands, new concepts and events to the destination. .

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you’re a network manager, you’ve already got a solution—and it’s all around you. Here at Cisco, we’re making use of just these kinds of data-informed, self-regulating spaces to maintain the health and wellness of employees and guests. Subscribe to the Networking blog! Check out our Intent-Based Networking Video Channel .

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Retail Gazette

MAY 30, 2024

Roast Rewards will cost subscribers £25 a month and will include up to five hot drinks per day with 20% off breakfast and lunch items, excluding meal deals, The Telegraph reported. At LEON we’re all about providing exceptional experiences at an unbeatable value.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Based on unaudited management accounts, group sales across Kogan, Dick Smith and Matt Blatt divisions – and its New Zealand subsidiary Mighty Ape – fell 38.8 per cent to 3,596,000 as at September 30. Kogan First subscribers — which includes those in both Australia and New Zealand — grew by 5.1 per cent to $203.3 per cent to $31.3

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365 Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

The third annual study from Barclaycard Payments – which processes £1 in every £3 spent on credit and debit cards in the UK – found two thirds (67 per cent) of Brits remain signed up to at least one digital or direct-to-door service and many see them an important tool to help manage finances (cited by 34 per cent) at time of rising costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2023

consumers have at least one subscription, and predicts that the subscription market will reach a nearly $200 billion valuation this year and surpass the trillion-dollar mark by 2027. And while more than half of consumers said they have canceled at least one streaming service since January 2023, among that group, 73.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Health should be accessible, shareable and available to you at any time of the day. Given the nature of diapers, and the long-term economics of a subscriber versus a la carte shopper, we offer a 15% discount on a diaper subscription and make it the default selection on our website. ”.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2024

Abrdn, one of the UK’s biggest fund managers that has a £1bn stake in the online retailer, has urged it to set up a committee of independent directors to deal with the impact of its AI usage on human rights The investor is concerned about the risk of scandals or oversights at Amazon hitting its investment, according to The Sunday Times.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 7, 2024

Fund manager JO Hambro, which holds a 4.5% stake in the retailer, wants Currys to sell ID Mobile, a subsidiary that sells monthly phone contracts and is valued at around £350 million, according to The Sunday Times. subscribers. It now has more than 1.5m

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Pets at Home boss Lyssa McGowan has promised shoppers a “real step change” with its new app, which will further its aim of creating the world’s best petcare platform. The new app will also have subscription capabilities, a key growth area for Pets at Home. The retailer already has more than 1.7m subscriptions. in its first half.

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