Black Friday

How your pet business can get the most out of PPC marketing as consumer trends shift

As a business owner you’ll know that, in order to succeed, you need to be willing to adapt to shifts in consumer trends. This applies to everything from the products you stock to the way you choose to market your company. Everything from seasonality to current affairs can have a…

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Asos bounces back from tricky period

Back in July last year Retail Sector reported that Asos was having problems. It had issued a profit warning, suggesting profits were likely to be about one-third of what was originally anticipated. It was an interesting moment in the retail world, because the narrative for the whole of the last…

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Ted Baker hanging by a thread amid £58m balance sheet black hole

If you have shares in Ted Baker, you are probably not having a good morning. The price has tanked by almost 7% after news broke that the fashion brand has found a £58m black hole in its accounts. There’s being a few hundred thousand or a few million short, but when…

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‘Jingle bots’ are artificially ramming online shopping baskets to use up stock

I have my reservations about this story because we spend a lot of time in our office poring over the news for interesting stories and takes, and we haven’t seen it reported like this before. But it comes from a company called Radware, which is a publicly traded web app…

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Furbo camera to be featured during Amazon’s Black Friday deals

Pet camera, Furbo, will be featured on the Amazon website during this year’s Black Friday shopping event. This year, Black Friday will take place on 23 November and most deals and sales will take place over the whole weekend concluding on Monday 26 November on Cyber Monday. The Furbo Dog…

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December 2017 sees retail sales slump

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that December 2017 had the weakest retail sales in over four years. The quantity of items bought in December decreased by 1.5 per cent when compared with the stronger sales in November 2017. Although retail sales increased by 1.3 per cent in…

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Retail sales rise in the build up to Christmas

Retail sales have risen in the year to December, according to the latest monthly CBI Distributive Trades Survey. The survey of 109 firms, of which 56 were retailers, showed that in the year to December, retail sales and orders continued to rise, although both disappointed expectations of somewhat stronger growth. Overall, sales…

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Billion-pound online spend predicted for Boxing Day

Online retail spend on Boxing Day will exceed a billion pounds for the first time, according to new figures. The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) estimates that consumers will spend as much as £1.03bn through online shopping this year on Boxing Day, a 7.9 percent increase on 2016 when total…

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Household finances slow UK spending growth

Consumer spending growth slowed to 2.4 percent in October as Brits cut back across the board to cope with household finances. Data from Barclaycard reveals that spending on essentials (2.9 percent) outstripped discretionary spend growth (2.2 percent) for the second month running. This slowdown in expenditure on ‘nice-to-haves’ was driven…

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Retail sales increase in Britain

Retail sales in Britain increased by 5.9 percent in November compared with November 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics. All store types showed growth with the largest contribution coming from non-store retailing. Although many claimed that ‘Black Friday’ events may not have been popular, sales were boosted by…

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