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National insurance hike and energy bills behind food price rise, say UK retailers
Retailers have blamed rising energy bills and the chancellor Rachel Reeves's hike in employers' national insurance contributions for a jump in food prices, as suppliers and supermarkets struggle to absorb higher costs. The British Retail Consortium…
Will Wellness Finally Find Its Groove at Beauty Retail?
As wellness continues its post-pandemic boom, beauty retailers appear to be coming to a consensus on the category. Ulta Beauty, Target and Walmart are leaning into wellness, each kicking off 2026 with sweeping additions to their respective…
Crypto Misses the Macro Trade as Retail Dives Into Gold, Stocks
Gold is topping $5,000. Stocks keep booming. The dollar is falling again. Yet Bitcoin — hailed as both a momentum and “ debasement ” trade — is sitting out the action. Its price is stalling, volumes are limp, and…
Smart Money Buys Cardano While Retail Exits: What It Signals
Smart money wallets have continued to accumulate Cardano (ADA) over the past two months, even as the cryptocurrency's price traded lower. In contrast, smaller retail wallets have been offloading the asset over the last three weeks. This divergence…
This Week in Retail: Retail CEO Forum and Apple earnings
As snow piles up across the country, it's going to be a relatively quiet week in retail. The World Economic Forum is over, and the Supreme Court won't be issuing any new rulings until next month, meaning no indication until then on whether it will…
C&I Expo returns to Sydney as convenience retail decision makers gather
Australia's convenience and impulse retail sector will converge in Sydney in March as suppliers, retailers and service providers look to respond to shifting shopper behaviour, margin pressure and operational complexity. The Convenience & Impulse…
Europe's Airport Duty-Free Sales Hit $1 Billion A Month-But A More Regulated Future May Loom
Nigel Keal: “As regulatory and market pressures increase, turning insight into action will depend on collaboration across the value chain and a coordinated, credible voice in support of European travel retail.” © 2026 Richard…
How a 2011 paintball retailer's video experiment predicted e-commerce's conversion playbook
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2011, included here for context and accuracy. Tension: A small retailer's 2011 experiment proving video lifted conversions by 26% now represents table stakes in an industry…
Major high street retailer announces 6 more store closures - full list
River Island has just shut six more stores A major UK fashion retailer has shut six more stores as part of a wider closure plan. A total of 27 River Islands stores are set to close by the end of the month, with six having shut for the last time…
The tm:rw Store Reimagines the Future of Retail - COOL HUNTING
Imagine trying on the latest pair of VR glasses, getting a massage by a robot or driving an F1-inspired racing simulator, all in the same day. tm:rw, a unique store in the heart of Times Square in New York, combines access to cutting-edge products…
Musinsa bets on offline retail to scale beauty ambitions
Korea's leading fashion platform Musinsa is bringing its beauty business into physical stores for the first time, building on momentum from its private labels. The company said Tuesday that its beauty unit would establish its first physical…
Kenya's bourse bets on M-Pesa to attract retail investors
The Nairobi Securities Exchange is betting on mobile money platforms to attract more retail investors after ending a decade-long IPO drought, with leading telcos expected to soon roll out trading services on mobile money apps to widen access to…
Did Lands' End Just Become a Must-Buy Retail Stock?
Lands' End (NASDAQ:LE) stock jumped over 33% in early trading this morning after the company announced a joint venture with WHP Global to monetize its intellectual property. The deal delivers $300 million in cash to Lands' End, most of which will…
Best Retail Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - January 26th
Pelosi's Bullish 2026 Buy List: AI, Power & Dividends Amazon.com, Alibaba Group, and Walmart are the three Retail stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Retail stocks are shares traded by individual…
Murdoch puts $20m prized sheep station on the market
Media magnate and part-time farmer Rupert Murdoch has put up for sale a prestige sheep breeding enterprise, part of the network of properties linked to the long-established family farm, Cavan Station, in NSW, a short drive from Canberra. The…
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