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Tesco can’t emulate the success of Amazon Prime with Clubcard Plus

Subscriptions have become the holy grail for retailers as the sector moves away from competing purely on product and increasingly on service. Recurring revenue and driving loyalty with your most important shoppers—what’s not to like? Tesco has become the latest retailer to jump on the subscription bandwagon. Britain’s biggest supermarket Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 1 year9 months ago
E-commerce

Next gets that the future of e-commerce is stores

To be relevant in retail today, you have to acknowledge that stores are no longer purely about selling. I believe most high street retailers are on board with this concept, but few are comfortable implementing it. And that’s because for decades, we as an industry have obsessed over metrics such Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 1 year9 months ago
E-commerce

Sainsburys-Asda: dare we say #amazoneffect?

‘The Amazon Effect’ is one of the most widely used phrases in retail today. High street shops closing? It’s the Amazon Effect. Retailers investing online? The Amazon Effect. Acquisitions, CVAs, redundancies… These days, we can find a way to link, however tenuously, most retail developments to the Seattle-based behemoth. And Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 years3 years ago
E-commerce

Debenhams: department stores doomed?

Weather. Calendar shifts. Experiential spending. Retailers have many “dog ate my homework” excuses for when trading is less than stellar, but when a late snowstorm forces you to temporarily shut over half your stores, it’s bound to impact the top line. While it’s important to acknowledge the impact of the Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 years3 years ago
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Store closures

The cost of complacency

A sad week for retail and a stark reminder of the dangers of complacency. Toys R Us and Maplin ultimately collapsed because they failed to adapt to changing shopping habits. Let’s not ignore the elephant in the room. What would make a shopper choose Maplin over Amazon? The retail titan’s Read more…

By Natalie Berg, 3 years3 years ago
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