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Bain expects 3.5% UK Christmas sales growth, but mostly from inflation rather than volume
UK retailers heading into Christmas should treat a 3.5% sales forecast as a pricing story rather than a demand story.
Read moreCarrefour Belgium takes BuyBye autonomous fridges to a hospital operating theatre as network heads for 12 sites
Carrefour Belgium is taking its BuyBye autonomous store format to places where a conventional shop could not open, and the latest sites show what that...
Read moreAldi ties premium payments to 1,000 British beef farms, but leaves the price of its supply security undisclosed
Aldi UK will pay British beef farmers more than the market price in return for commitments on how they farm.
Read moreWaitrose opens its first full-line supermarket in eight years and lines up four more sites
Waitrose is opening supermarkets again. The John Lewis Partnership has opened a Waitrose store in Cricklewood, north-west London, which it describes as...
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IKEA brings 6,500 products to Douyin as Ingka tests content-led shopping in China
Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, has opened an official flagship store on Douyin, ByteDance's Chinese short-video and content-commerce platform.
Retailers can sell disposable barbecues again after the government withdraws its summer ban
Retailers can supply disposable barbecues again. The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) confirmed that the statutory guidelines it brought...
Amazon's Bee wearables link everyday conversations to Amazon.com shopping recommendations
Amazon is offering shoppers a device that listens to their day and can feed what it hears into Amazon.com recommendations.
Morrisons uses its Christmas pet launch to reset the whole pet aisle
Morrisons has paired its Christmas pet range with a wider reset of its whole pet category. For a grocer, that matters more than any one novelty treat.
Walmart sets the rules for AI agents that shop on customers' behalf
Walmart has set out how third-party AI agents will be allowed to shop on its platform for customers.
Bain expects 3.5% UK Christmas sales growth, but mostly from inflation rather than volume
UK retailers heading into Christmas should treat a 3.5% sales forecast as a pricing story rather than a demand story.
Carrefour Belgium takes BuyBye autonomous fridges to a hospital operating theatre as network heads for 12 sites
Carrefour Belgium is taking its BuyBye autonomous store format to places where a conventional shop could not open, and the latest sites show what that...
Aldi ties premium payments to 1,000 British beef farms, but leaves the price of its supply security undisclosed
Aldi UK will pay British beef farmers more than the market price in return for commitments on how they farm.
Waitrose opens its first full-line supermarket in eight years and lines up four more sites
Waitrose is opening supermarkets again. The John Lewis Partnership has opened a Waitrose store in Cricklewood, north-west London, which it describes as...
M&S adds Klarna's pay-in-three option to its website and app for fashion, home and beauty
Marks & Spencer customers can now spread the cost of fashion, home and beauty purchases online over three interest-free payments.
Sainsbury's limits SmartShop self-scan to its supermarkets
Sainsbury's now says on its own SmartShop help page that the scan-as-you-go service "is currently not available in convenience stores".
MediaMarktSaturn opens MediaMarkt stores to independent operators but keeps prices and range central
MediaMarktSaturn wants local entrepreneurs to help it add MediaMarkt stores without running every one of them itself.
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