Yesterday analysts were scrambling to change their Christmas shopping predictions after their crystal ball gazing around the so-called Panic Saturday proved very wrong. But this time it looks like they got it right as shoppers knocking off early for Christmas hit the stores with a vengeance. Apparently, shoppers queued in their cars for over three…
Don’t be distracted by stories about flying drone product deliveries. I’m convinced the future of parcel delivery is ground-based and this neat little robot might be the way forwards.
They called it Panic Saturday, the day UK shoppers would wake up and think “OMG, it’s Christmas on Friday, I must go shopping.” So did it happen? Not really. Stores geared up for retail madness but shoppers woke up and said “yeah, whatever…”
Britons are going to go on a spending binge in the next four days that will blow the Black Friday long weekend’s spending out of the water. And online will benefit as well as physical stores, despite the delivery drawbridge getting precariously close to being pulled up.
Has this been a good festive shopping season for the fashion sector? The jury’s still out on that one. But the latest figures from John Lewis suggest it’s not been spectacular. It seems consumers aren’t exactly rushing to stock up on the sparkly partywear that’s making almost every fashion store into a twinkling wonderland at the…
Three stories have really excited my interest this week. And no, it’s not the Burberry ad campaign nor all those pre-fall collections. Instead it’s: Robots are becoming a significant consumer spending sector. John Lewis is at least one bricks-and-mortar retailer that expects its online sales to be bigger than store sales within four years. And the…
One day Russia, next day – the world. Well, Australia, at least. But it’s clear from recent news that Debenhams’ ambitions are pretty global. No sooner has it signed to buy Stockmann’s Russian stores than it’s gearing up for a big push into Australia. The retailer signed a deal with Pepkor’s Harris Scarfe chain and…
Another day, another tech initiative from Burberry. The company has linked up with DreamWorks Animation for a product campaign making use of 3D tech and the world-famous Piccadilly Circus, London, curved screen. Passers-by will be able to design a personalised heritage scarf on their smartphones and the result will appear on the screen, according to…
Fashion, handbags, accessories, wearable tech and the website were all standout performers at John Lewis in the latest week, which is good news. But has the week been generally positive given that seven days ago John Lewis reported week-on-week sales up an astonishing 60.1% thanks to Black Friday? Now that the dust has settled, have the…
Can anything stop Inditex? Not at the moment it seems. The Zara owner said this morning that its profits rose by 20% in the nine-months to the end of October and that the Christmas shopping season has got off to a good start. You bet it has. Sales from November 1 to December 3 have risen 15%…
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