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Innovation of the Week
Argos launches new social media series spotlighting top products
Innovation of the Week is a series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our team.
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News
Asda to launch new ecommerce insight platform Asda Xpert
Supermarket giant Asda has partnered with an ecommerce data analytics platform to create and launch the retailer’s new ecommerce insight and collaboration platform Asda Xpert, Retail Week can reveal.
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Analysis
Should Meghan Markle be your new retail guru?
Before you dismiss the Duchess of Sussex as a retailer, her jam-selling venture offers surprising insights into scarcity marketing, celebrity commerce pitfalls, and repeat purchase economics
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Feature
Customer loyalty – what will the next three decades of evolution mean for retail?
In 1995, a little card fundamentally changed how retailers would understand their customers for decades to come.
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Retail Voice
From scroll to sale: How TikTok drives commerce everywhere
Margins are under pressure. Loyalty? Harder to earn. And traditional routes to growth are no longer guaranteed. So, with shopper habits evolving and the rules of brand engagement shifting, many retailers are looking for new ways to reach and convert consumers in the moments that matter
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News
Debenhams turns to Pinterest to maximise advertising returns
Debenhams has tapped visual discovery engine Pinterest to develop a new marketing strategy, increase brand awareness and boost customer growth.
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Analysis
Store tour: Hotel Chocolat’s new flagship boxing up the best of the retailer’s physical formats
Nine months after taking over the top job at Hotel Chocolat from entrepreneurial founder Angus Thirlwell, chief executive Lysa Hardy and her team are building something new.
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News
M&S advert banned for including ‘unhealthily thin’ model
Marks & Spencer has had one of its online adverts banned after it is believed to have featured a model appearing “unhealthily thin”.
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News
Whistles and White Stuff owner promotes from within for new chief brand officer
TFG London, the owner of brands such as Hobbs, Whistles, Phase Eight and White Stuff, has appointed Julia Monro as its new chief brand officer with immediate effect.
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News
Sainsbury’s rolls out Your Nectar Prices nationwide
The loyalty programme will offer Nectar customers lower prices on products based on their shopping habits, alongside usual Nectar Prices on multiple categories including dairy, fruit and veg, bakery, meat and fish.
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News
The Very Group makes new hire for its in-house creative agency
The Very Group has made a new appointment for its in-house creative agency to bolster its senior leadership team.
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News
John Lewis takes ‘big step forward’ in retail media
Grocery and department store group John Lewis Partnership has expanded its retail media offer beyond its own websites.
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News
Sainsbury’s owned Habitat partners with Pinterest on new homeware campaign
Habitat, the homeware brand owned by supermarket Sainsbury’s, has partnered with Pinterest on a new campaign.
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Data
Exclusive research: 1,000 shoppers reveal the new ways they discover brands
Exclusive consumer research from Pinterest and Retail Week reveals new ways UK shoppers are discovering brands, what’s likely to make them buy and how retailers must act now for sustainable growth
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News
THG partners with firm for new retail media offering
THG Ingenuity and THG Beauty Media have partnered with a firm on a new retail media network, Retail Week can reveal.
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Interview
Interview: Debenhams Group chief executive Dan Finley on being the right man for the job
After a busy six months since he was named chief executive boss Dan Finley gives us his first sit-down interview since taking on the role, telling Retail Week why he, above anyone else, is the right man for the job
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News
Boots CMO departs after four years
Boots’ chief marketing officer is stepping down from his role following a four and a half year stint.
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News
JD Sports opens first Las Vegas flagship
JD Sports has opened its first ever Las Vegas flagship as it looks to push forward with its plans to open experiential physical retail destinations around the globe.
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Interview
Q&A: Nectar360 boss on creating new opportunities in retail media
Sainsbury’s and Nectar360 have today announced their new platform Pollen, which they say will “supercharge” their retail media business and drive forward their strategy