Feature articles

- With multichannel sales now forming a vital part of overall retail trading, an increasing number of UK retailers are running click & collect services for their high street operations.Many thought 2011 would be the year ordering online and collecti...

- Over the last year Retail Gazette has spoken to many of the top names in retail. Our Big Interview section has included the likes of Superdrug Commercial Director Steve Jebson, Waitrose Managing Director Mark Price and high street guru Mary Portas...

- It has been a very tough year for the British retail industry with a number of established high street names going under and many businesses operating in the sector struggling to record sales growth against a difficult economic backdrop.What is cl...

- Parents will not significantly cut back on their present buying this Christmas, despite the current economic uncertainties, but it seems that they will be doing more shopping online then ever before.In another blow for traditional high street trad...

- Retailers are set for tough sales comparisons this Christmas due to the ongoing economic gloom and the lack of pre-VAT incentives unlike last year, though there are a number of ways that these problems can be overcome.Over the last 12 months, cons...

- News that one of the biggest retail organisations in the UK, Arcadia Group, may not renew its leases on as many as 260 of its existing stores is enough to give young retail employees lumps in their throats.As if youth unemployment were not high en...

- When asking a friend of mine who used to live in Cardiff where the best shops were in the city, she gave a long pause before informing me that there was not much to see there.This person had not been back to the Welsh capital city in a number of y...

- UK consumers celebrating Halloween in 2011 are unlikely to spend less than last year and over half now believe that the event is an important celebration in the UK calendar, according to new research commissioned by Retail Gazette.In a survey of 1...