Shein has another 3.5 years of being able to send parcels to the UK without import duty.

So farewell then Amazon Fresh. You were the future once "Just walk out", you said Shame you didn't give us any reasons To come back again

ONS explains the retail sales data delay but it just confirms why we have never taken much notice of its "seasonally adjusted" numbers www.ons.gov.uk/businessindu...

We have often had quality concerns about ONS retail data, and now, so does the ONS. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ons-del...

Morrisons Harrow must have been high on their own supply when spending £££s installing locked cabinets for its whiskey. They thought shoppers would 'buzz for booze' and wait patiently for help. They've sobered up now and opened the doors.

Oh no StubHub, please don't go, you provide such a valuable service to us all such as inflating ticket prices and showcasing best in class drip pricing www.ft.com/content/7cba...

Shein raises prices for US customers but UK shoppers STILL pay more than they do

The irrepressible Joel Hills, business editor at ITV News, is running the London marathon in memory of his colleagues and raising money to sponsor a journalist student at Cardiff University. You can help here... www.justgiving.com/page/joel-hi...

Not quite Colgate Beef Lasagna in terms of brand over-extension, but still a bit of a stretch www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-...

To my teenage daughter I am obviously totally uncool, as is my job. But this clip from the news that I was on last night somehow popped up in her TikTok feed. She's pretending not to be impressed, in case I get carried away. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdY1kg86/

New casual options (between the mochi stand and the nail bar) at Westfield: IV drips.

I for one expected so much more from a company that describes itself as an 'investment boutique'

RIP WH Smith. I feel I should now confess that in the mid 80s I used to return ZX Spectrum games having copied them and then recorded over them to make them appear faulty. No wonder you only sold for £76m.

WH Smith shares down almost 4% today, following disappointingly low sale price for the high street arm.

Oh Decathlon, I'm so sorry, I...I... I've been busy, I'll get to it right away. Please forgive me.

So Asda has started a massive price war today - but are the price cuts they've highlighted all that they seem? (1/5) Data below is from GlobalData Online Price Intelligence...

"Hey babes, have a guess whether you need to check or uncheck boxes to unsubscribe from White Fox, cause we ain't telling ya"

Thoughts and prayers for Alex during these difficult times. Their local Homebase is being replaced with a Wickes.

Arsenal have launched a set of homewares including a china vase that retails at £550. Need to get the cash for that striker in the summer somehow. www.arsenal.com/news/club-la...

I used to think that a whole pint was 'perfect for your pint glass', but no, you need a 30ml gap at the top apparently. #guinnessshortage #shrinkflation

Some call centers are frustrating but you expect they are trying their best to get through their queue of customers. Not HP though. HP introduced a MINIMUM wait time on their customers before they would speak with them. Feedback was not positive. www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/h...

Just out: Amazon's UK sales for 2024: +9.7% to £29.6bn (+12.7% in USD to $37.9bn). Amazon continues to way outperform the overall online market which only grew by 2.4% last year

The problem with asking wacky questions in consumer surveys is they always exaggerate the positive responses. If you ask 'did you go to the moon last Thursday?' you will get a significant number claiming they did. Same goes for VML's Future Shopper survey. www.vml.com/insight/the-...

...but then, nor should Retail Week when it reports on them

George is quite right of course, ONS shouldn't focus on month on month comparisons. www.retail-week.com/customer/ons...

Not trusting ONS' seasonal adjustments, the best way to look at the retail data today is combining Nov and Dec (due to way Black Friday period spilled into Dec last year). Value up 2.2% on last year. In £ terms, it is what a lot of retailers (but not me) would declare to be a 'record Christmas'.

New entry! 5. Retailers boasting about delivering 'record breaking' Christmas sales as if inflation didn't exist New entry! 6. Journalists regurgitating point 5

Top retail industry irritants: 1. Calling a smaller, but still -ve LFL number 'improving' 2. Comparing ONS monthly retail sales with previous month not year ago 3. Breathless excitement about retail use of doomed tech 4. The phrase 'price investment'

@arsenalfc.bsky.social why oh why do you not have a waiting list for tickets for those unsuccessful in ballots instead of the waste of time that searching for non-existent tickets on the Ticket Exchange is. Waiting lists work well on Dice, can't see why it wouldn't work for Arsenal membership.

How do we value Boots now? Walgreens hawked them around for £7bn in 2022 and failed, but Boots has performed well since. Walgreens market cap is $9bn with $8bn long term debt. Is Boots worth more than the rest of its parent?

In a session with our sustainability experts. Have learned that cow breath and burps emit more methane than cow farts.

Interesting Black Friday take from Asket.com - not taking orders, and stores only open to take in clothes for repair.

Solid results from AO (sales up 6%) but have to wonder about CEO John Roberts' less than modern reference points

This is a big move by #Amazon - The specter of change on de minimus hangs over it. #ecommerce #retail #crossborder www.seattletimes.com/business/ama...

💥 #Retail Twitter was late to Bluesky, but lots of new people in last 24hrs including @grahamsoult.bsky.social @neilretail.com @mrsteveleach.bsky.social @savvycatherine.bsky.social @bsillitoe.bsky.social @whatbutlersaw.bsky.social and many others… Let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/ThbCH86

ONS retail sales data claims that sales through computer and telecommunications stores have increased 88% in Sept y-o-y, and 43% YTD. I cannot see a plausible explanation for this.