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These remain interesting times for the delivery businesses, writes Glynn Davis, founder of Retail Insider…
These remain interesting times for the delivery businesses, writes Glynn Davis, founder of Retail Insider…
These remain interesting times for the delivery businesses, writes Glynn Davis, founder of Retail Insider…
As things have opened up we’ve reverted back to our previous behaviour and take-away food deliveries are again off the menu in my household. It would seem that we are the exceptions among the bulk of the UK population because delivery and take-away sales still remain at more than twice the level seen before Covid-19.
Over recent years the major supermarkets have gradually been removing sweets and unhealthy snacks from the area around their checkouts after coming under pressure from the government and other groups accusing them of contributing to the nation’s obesity problem. Enforceable restrictions are also on the way via the HFSS (high fat, salt and sugar) legislation.
Glynn Davis is one of the UK’s most knowledgeable and experienced retail journalists, founder of Retail Insider, and Ecommerce Age’s monthly columnist.
In the early days of the internet there were question marks over the long-term potential for the online channel for retail and how it would sit alongside the stores. There was a worry that this upstart channel would cannibalise revenues from the physical outlets.
Glynn Davis is one of the UK’s most knowledgeable and experienced retail journalists, founder of Retail Insider, and Ecommerce Age’s monthly columnists.
Glynn Davis, our regular columnist and founder of Retail Insider sits down with Ben Patton, Founder of Good Club
We only need to go back to early 2020 to find that a major worry in the retail industry was the forecasted loss of jobs due to robotics and automation, with the BRC (British Retail Consortium) predicting 370,000 roles would become extinct by 2025 as a result of the advance of technology automating a plethora of roles.
The current changes in the ecommerce landscape seem to offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity to create memorable marketing moments and build strong customer relationships, only if advertisers and marketers are willing to move strategically. So how can they do this and what is the stand out area that marketers need to re-think to make ecommerce really work?
Glynn Davis is one of
By having real-time conversations with customers, brands are able to establish a connection and drive loyalty by providing exactly what a shopper needs at exactly the right time.
It’s no surprise that the subscriptions market has boomed but have we reached peak subscription?
It is only in the past year or so that there has been an explosion in the model with operators including Next, Matalan and Marks & Spencer in the UK adding marketplaces to their businesses
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