High Street
The high street remains a vital battleground for pet retailers, balancing in-person service with growing digital competition. Pet Gazette covers the role of independent pet shops, regional chains, and national retailers on UK high streets — reporting on shop openings and closures, rent pressures, footfall trends, and evolving customer expectations. We also examine localised marketing strategies, product merchandising, and how high street stores adapt to omni-channel retail. For wholesalers and suppliers, this tag offers visibility into the challenges and opportunities facing brick-and-mortar stockists across towns and cities.
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Feb- 2018 -7 FebruaryIndustry News
James Wellbeloved launches trade competition
James Wellbeloved is putting the focus on puppy food with its new trade competition. There will also be an online sampling campaign built in to help drive new puppy owners into the specialist pet trade. New ads and display materials feature a very muddy puppy with the strapline ‘Don’t worry, I’ll…
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6 FebruaryBusiness
New shopping platform helps pet stores
A start-up business launched to get back into high street shops has now opened its doors to London-based pet stores. The website and app allows shoppers to find and buy items from shops nearby for instant collection and 1-hour delivery in London. The startup wants to get more people into local…
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Jan- 2018 -29 JanuaryRetailers
Planning applications for retail stores falls for ninth consecutive year
Planning applications for new shops have fallen for the ninth year in a row, says platform for peer-to-peer property lending, Lendy. New research by Lendy shows that the number of planning applications for new shops and shopping centres in England are down 55 percent since the credit crunch to just…
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19 JanuaryCurrent Affairs
Pets Corner to invest £9m in new stores
Pets Corner plans to invest £9m over the next three years in new stores and rolling out over 60 of its pet grooming spa, Dogwood. The company also reported that over 98 percent of its sales are attributed to its network of 149 stores, rather than online. Reporting on its financial highlights…
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18 JanuaryRetailers
Pets at Home closes all of its Barkers stores
Pets at Home has confirmed the closure of all seven of its Barkers stores across the country by the end of March. Pets at Home opened seven Barkers stores across the country in Bristol, Surrey, West Yorkshire, Marlow, London, Kent and Wilmslow. The shops were dog-centric outlets, offering toys, accessories,…
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15 JanuaryRetailers
High street sees sharpest footfall decline in four years
New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard show footfall in the month of December suffered its sharpest decline since March 2013. Total UK retail footfall fell by 3.5% compared with December 2016, while the high street saw a sharper drop, down by 4.6%. Shopping centres suffered a…
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12 JanuaryIndustry News
Shoppers make 80% of retail purchases online
Online shoppers in the UK make 80% of their retail purchases online, up from 74%, according to a new report. The Royal Mail’s ‘Delivery Matters’ report found that the proportion of money being spent online has increased year on year. The average online shopper spends £40 each month on clothes…
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Dec- 2017 -19 DecemberRetailers
90% of retailers to ‘struggle’ with upcoming accounting rules
Britain’s retailers look set to emerge as the most exposed to new lease commitments, according to analysis by Aptitude Software, a global financial software specialist. The firm predicts that 90% of UK high street retailers will struggle to comply with the impending lease accounting standards (IFRS 16) which come into…
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Nov- 2017 -27 NovemberFeatures
How safe is your job?
Despite a three percent drop in employment, Pet Gazette discovers that the retail sector is still going strong “The pace of job reductions in the retail industry is gathering steam,” says British Retail Consortium (BRC) chief executive Helen Dickinson OBE. In October, the BRC reported a record reduction in retail…
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14 NovemberCurrent Affairs
Pets boost small business sales
In the run up to Small Business Saturday (taking place on 2 December), American Express research reveals how a ‘shop dog’ can boost sales for small business owners. Having a pet on the payroll can boost the income of small shops across the UK as a whole by as much…
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