Black Friday 2019: predictions and trends for UK retail Image source: Starline – Freepik.com Originating in the US as a post-Thanksgiving start to Christmas shopping, Black Friday has garnered popularity in the UK and transformed into a week-long event of retail sales and discounts. Retail Insight Network takes a look at what the retail industry…
What Black Friday can learn from Singles Day Image source: Retail Gazette Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping event – also known as 11.11 – raked in £34.45 billion last year, while Black Friday fell behind. What is China doing right? And how can UK retailers learn from them to boost seasonal sales? There no doubting that…
14 UK Cinemas Could Soon Be Equipped With Solar Panels Image source: environment journal 14 UK cinemas could have solar panels fitted to their roofs after Empire Cinemas signed a Memorandum of Understanding with US solar firm, Solar Alliance. According to Empire Cinemas each of its cinemas has a rooftop capacity to support approximately 200…
CDRL LAUNCHES CONSUMER LAW TRAINING FACILITY IN MILTON KEYNES Consumer Dispute Resolution Limited (CDRL), the specialist provider of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services in; aviation, non-regulated communications; retail and the non-regulated utilities sectors, has opened the ‘CDRL Training Centre’ in Milton Keynes to help consumer facing companies with their legal standing. In conjunction…
Harrods named world’s most successful luxury department store Image source: Retail Gazette Harrods has beaten the likes of Selfridges and Liberty to be named the world’s best-performing luxury department store. According to research compiled by industry analysts at GlobalData along with architects Sybarite, the 170-year-old retailer owned by Qatari royal family is the strongest performer by…
Amazon partners with Next in click-and-collect service Amazon has partnered with Next to launch a new service that allows customers to collect parcels from pick-up points from the latter’s high street stores. Launching at hundreds of Next stores in the UK, shoppers who use the new system – called Amazon Counter – will be able…
Primark ‘set to trial online shopping’ and it could help you nab some bargains Primark could be opening an online shopping service. Image source: Heart The fashion giant continues to expand as they take over the internet, just weeks after opening the world’s biggest Primark store in Birmingham Savvy shoppers could be set to bag…
Surge in complaints about online shopping and package deliveries Image source: Aol. A big jump in people complaining about problems with online shopping and package deliveries has been reported by a free-to-use website which helps with consumer gripes. Online shopping complaint volumes jumped by 84% in 2018-19 compared with 2017-18, according to Resolver’s analysis of people using…
Online retail sees ‘subdued’ growth in March Image source: RetailSector Online retail recorded growth of just 5% year-on-year (YoY) in March, compared with 18.9% last year, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index. While still positive growth, the “subdued performance” fell significantly below the three (+7.5%), six (+7.1%) and 12- (+10.2%) month rolling…
Carpetright sees sales improvement despite British retail gloom Image source: Finance Yahoo Shares in UK flooring retailer Carpetright surged on Thursday after it said UK sales had improved in the fourth quarter, a year after its creditors and investors backed a rescue plan which saw it close dozens of underperforming stores. Its losses had ballooned…