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Lidl delivered its most successful UK Christmas season on record: The discount grocer’s revenues rose 7% in the four weeks leading up to Christmas.
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| Jan 2, 2025
The news: Nearly half of US and UK consumers admit to abusing retailers’ returns policies in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by The Harris Poll. Our take: Retailers face a Catch-22 when it comes to returns. Being too generous opens the door for fraud and can result in retailers being overburdened by reverse logistics costs. But being too restrictive can deter shoppers from opening their wallets.
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| Jul 1, 2025
Digital wallets are gaining share of retail transactions in the UK. Retailers that don’t accept them risk losing sales.
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| Apr 30, 2024
’s UK revenues soar while the wait for IPO drags on: The fast-fashion retailer’s success has come at the expense of companies like Boohoo and Asos.
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| Oct 9, 2024
Shein stumbles under UK regulators’ scrutiny: The ecommerce platform failed to relieve concerns about forced labor in its supply chain as it prepares for a more challenging operating environment.
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| Jan 27, 2025
Retail media ad spending in France, Germany, and the UK continues to rise, outpacing all other ad formats. The space is developing rapidly despite fragmentation and a lack of standards.
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| May 22, 2025
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UK retail footfall declined in November as shoppers waited for Black Friday deals: Poor weather and subdued confidence also weighed on traffic, souring retailers’ holiday prospects.
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| Dec 2, 2024
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This is the first installment of our biannual “U Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Apr 30, 2025
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| Nov 26, 2024
The news: Klarna will offer unlimited 5G data, talk, and text for $40/month with coverage on AT&T’s network in the US, per a press release, with plans to expand this deal to the UK and Germany soon.
Our take: Klarna’s ambitions to be a BNPL provider, a mobile phone service, a neobank, and most recently—according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski—“a digital financial assistant,” per CNBC, signals the company’s voracious appetite to be everything at once.
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| Jun 18, 2025