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Watson pivots to 'instant retail', community stores to revitalise China sales
Hong Kong health and beauty retailer AS Watson Group, owner of the iconic Watsons brand, is intensifying its focus on key growth areas, particularly instant retail and community stores in mainland China, as the company explores strategies to…
Retailers will be scrambling to accept stablecoins in 2026
Stablecoins (cryptocurrency tokens that track the price of a stable asset, usually $1) recorded a breakout year in 2025. More than $33 trillion in stablecoin transactions moved across blockchains in the last 12 months, surpassing the volume…
Discount retailer fails to lure in customers with price cuts
Discount retailer B&M has issued a fresh profit warning, attributing the revised outlook to ongoing sales pressure and strategic price reductions implemented as part of its overhaul efforts. The group reported a 0.6 per cent decline in UK…
Retailers use 'misleading' claims to sell weight-loss supplements
Major retailers and online marketplace are making 'outlandish claims” to market weight-loss supplements, a watchdog has warned. Which? said it found evidence of Amazon, eBay, Holland & Barrett, Superdrug and Temu among others using…
When personalization becomes prediction: The data dilemma retailers face
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2014, included here for context and accuracy. Tension: Retailers accumulate unprecedented customer data yet struggle to transform that information into meaningful experiences…
Priceline, Chemist Warehouse named Power Retail finalists
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Hanwha meets retail investors as spin-off plan draws backlash
Hanwha Group's de facto holding company held a rare meeting Wednesday with minority shareholders amid calls for the conglomerate to revise its controversial spin-off plan, which critics see as an attempt to allow the chairman's youngest son to…
Auto parts retailer leases huge warehouse in Commerce City
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Advance Auto Parts is parking in Commerce City. The publicly traded car parts retailer signed a seven-year lease in December for 178,000 square feet at 17956 E. 84th Ave. in Commerce City, building owner…
Optus decides to bring its entire retail network in-house
Optus is assuming direct control of all its stores throughout the country as it tries to stabilise its business after a torrid year when it was fined $100 million for pressuring vulnerable people to buy unneeded services. Optus, which has some 240…
Retailers selling supplements that wrongly claim they're as good as fat jabs
MISLEADING weight-loss supplements that wrongly claim they are as good as fat jabs are on sale on Amazon, Temu and eBay, a study by Which? has found. The consumer group said it found evidence that the retailers among others were making…
Burt's Bees Veterans Bring New Vaginal Care Brand to Retail
Two Burt's Bees veterans and a gynecologist are looking to crack the code of menopausal beauty. The trio of founders, which includes former Burt's Bees chief executive officer John Replogle; former Burt's Bees general manager Mariah Eckhardt, and…
Netstreit: A Texas-Based Retail REIT That Could Keep The Bulls Charging (NYSE:NTST)
Albert Anthony is the pen name of a Croatian-American business author who is a contributing analyst on investor platform & financial media site Seeking Alpha, where he has over +1,000 followers, & also has written for platforms like Investing dot…
The town retailers are abandoning with hundreds more people set to move in
'Everything now is just nail bars and barbers,' says Barry Hayward, an elderly Mitcham resident, reflecting on the dramatic changes to the town he has called home since the 1970s. 'This is the forgotten part of Merton,' he added. 'Mitcham is the…
Final hours until retail giant with 'prices better than Amazon' opens new store
AN ONLINE retailer with a variety of furniture and home goods products is set to open a new outlet store on Friday. The retailer, which shoppers claim has prices “better than half the junk I've sent back to Amazon lately,” will offer…
B&M European Value Retail S.A. (BMRRY) Q3 2026 Sales/Trading Call Transcript
B&M European Value Retail S.A. (BMRRY) Q3 2026 Sales/Trading Call January 22, 2026 4:00 AM EST Gerardus Jegen - CEO & Director Alexander Richard Okines - BNP Paribas, Research Division Jonathan Pritchard - Peel Hunt LLP, Research Division Richard…
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