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The Cotswold Company upgrades website as business moves further online

30 Apr 2021by Chloe Rigby

The Cotswold Company has upgraded its website as the first step in replatforming – and as business moves further online

Shoppers start to return in-store, but footfall still below pre-pandemic levels as office staff remain at home

26 Apr 2021by Chloe Rigby

The latest footfall figures suggest that more people continue to visit shops than did when stores reopened from the first lockdown, back in June. But store visits have not yet recovered to their pre-pandemic levels, according to figures from both Springboard and the New West End Company

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Argos predicts Easter sales will be double those of 2020 as poll shows shoppers making up for all the missed events of the past year

31 Mar 2021by Paul Skeldon

Argos is expecting shoppers to spend more than double the amount on Easter treats and decorations for the coming Bank Holiday weekend than they did last year – up by 104%, its data shows

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RXUK TOP500 INTERVIEW Chris Poad of Tesco on how the supermarket moved to agile decision making to respond to Covid-19 at speed

30 Mar 2021by Emma Herrod

Tesco has seen online growth of 80% with fulfilment capacity doubling in just three months, writes Emma Herrod. Chris Poad, managing director, online, Tesco, explains how the Elite retailer’s culture has changed to agile working, in a feature that first appeared in the RetailX Top500 UK 2021

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Mother’s Day outlines pent-up retail demand, but delivery and marketing strategies see some dramatic changes

17 Mar 2021by Paul Skeldon

Mother’s Day drove web sales up 17% in the first two weeks of March, outlining the pent-up demand for retail and forcing retailers to adopt some new sales and delivery tactics.

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Largest ever share of sales takes place online in locked-down February, while in-store sales fall

09 Mar 2021by Chloe Rigby

Ecommerce took its largest share of the market yet in February during lockdown 3.0, according to the latest figures from the BRC, while BRC and IMRG data both show strong online sales growth for the month. Barclaycard data, meanwhile, shows stronger spending on essential items - and much weaker spending on non-essential products

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Hotel Chocolat sees more than half of sales start online as digital ‘more than mitigates’ retail disruption

02 Mar 2021by Chloe Rigby

Virtual tastings, subscriptions and online sales have all helped Hotel Chocolat to counteract the effects of Covid-19 disruption in a pivot to digital

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UK sites see 28% boost to sales in February as Valentine’s Day goes totally digital – and there is no going back

24 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

Valentine’s Day 2021 ushered in a new early online peak for retailers, with websites seeing a 28% rise in sales in the first week of February and a 23% rise the following week as consumers got in early to buy gifts

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UK’s Valentine’s Day spend to grow 26% this year as retailers up their online capabilities in readiness

11 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

UK consumers are set to spend around £787m around Valentine’s Day, with two thirds of retailers saying that they have enhanced their ecommerce platforms in anticipation of sales increasing by as much as 26%. The predicted boost is also seeing 40% of retailers feeling more optimistic about the months ahead

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Boohoo buys Debenhams’ online business for £55m to transform it into a marketplace

25 Jan 2021by Chloe Rigby

Debenhams will transform from a department store business with 118 shops to an online marketplace following Boohoo Group’s acquisition of the department store’s ecommerce business for £55m cash

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