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10 retailers cutting jobs in 2025

Retail Gazette

The supermarket chain is seeking to expand the amount of buying roles at its Atherstone head office. In The Style Fast fashion retailer In The Style slashed at least 17 roles at the end of February ahead of its collapse this month.

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Japanese exceptionalism: What can we learn from it?

Inside Retail

Department stores were down 2 per cent in February (mirroring Takashimaya), supermarkets edged up 1.6 Again, Japanese retailers are masterful at creating eye-catching displays that draw people into the store and make shopping a whole lot more engaging. per cent) but flattened out in February (more than 1.4

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July. Africa awash At the Barcelona plant, garments arrive from more than 7,000 donation bins in supermarkets and Zara and Mango stores. A similar amount ends up as European landfill.

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Art, community and creativity: Three shopping centres setting new standards

Inside Retail

Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Supermarket giant, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Cinema, tick.

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AV in retail: Putting the customer first

Retail Focus

Even before the pandemic, the bricks and mortar aspect of the retail sector was undergoing major changes as the battle to attract people into stores, rather than shop online, intensified. Supermarkets, for example, are targeting promotions based on different areas of their stores or using screens to manage queues.

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Meet Big C: The Thai hypermarket chain thriving in small cities

Inside Retail

As we celebrate the emergence of more glamorous urban shopping centres with their cast of global retailers, spare a thought for the thousands of small cities across developing Asia where there isn’t quite enough spending power to support a full-sized regional shopping centre, store directory glowing with marquee names.

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Why department stores are thriving in Japan even as the US sector shrinks

Inside Retail

Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8 Perhaps the most important step was the introduction of smaller, off-price formats, which proliferated in open-air shopping centres and freestanding locations in CBDs and became extremely popular as entry-level brand access points for more budget-conscious consumers. per cent gain.