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

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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Superdry prioritises online and sustainability in its search for growth

19 Jan 2021by Chloe Rigby

Superdry is now prioritising investment into online and multichannel after a first half in which 50% of its sales were made online. At the same time, ecommerce grew by 49.8% compared to the same time last year. But customers’ shift online was also a move away from shops, where sales fell by 44.8%

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Dunelm rolls out ‘deliver to car’ click and collect to 170 superstores

18 Jan 2021by Chloe Rigby

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EDITORIAL How Tesco, Dunelm, Halfords and other Top500 retailers traded in lockdown and over peak

15 Jan 2021by Chloe Rigby

Footfall plummets in December to record low, but hope is on the horizon

07 Jan 2021by Paul Skeldon

Tougher COVID-19 restrictions kept shoppers away from post-Christmas sales in the last week of December, as footfall across the full four weeks after lockdown was lifted on 3rd December fell to less than half of the same period in 2019, according to the latest Retail Traffic Index (RTI) from Ipsos Retail Performance.

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Online grocery sales double in December leading to biggest Christmas on record for supermarkets, but many consumers still don’t like it

06 Jan 2021by Paul Skeldon

The online share of grocery sales at UK supermarkets doubled to 12.5% in the last four weeks ending 26th December 2020. This is up from online’s 6.7% share of sales during the same time in 2019, in what was the biggest December on record, reveals new data released today by Nielsen

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Next fourth-quarter online sales growth comes close to compensating for in-store losses – but full-year profits expected to halve

05 Jan 2021by Chloe Rigby

Shoppers bought so much more online from Next over the peak trading period that the retailer has almost closed the gap left by sales lost in-store as a result of Covid-19 closures. But the shift away from stores is set to cut its pre-tax profits by more than half, the retailer warned today

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