@NeilRetail

Managing Director of GlobalData Retail, founder of Conlumino. I analyze all sorts of things to do with retail, shopping, and consumers.

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Joined February 2010
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🇬🇧 Sainsbury’s raises profit outlook as grocery sales climb despite £164m loss buff.ly/yI0u0Zj

Sainsbury’s raises profit outlook as grocery sales climb despite £164m loss - Retail Gazette

Sainsbury’s has raised its full-year profit guidance after reporting a 3.6 per cent rise in underlying operating profit to £525m, as grocery sales growth and market share gains boosted its first-half...

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🇬🇧 Tax online sales more heavily to save high streets, Burnham urged buff.ly/Bv6FKH2

Tax online sales more heavily to save high streets, Burnham urged

Exclusive: British Chambers of Commerce president calls for overhaul of business rates and greater powers for local leaders

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🇬🇧 Aldi and Lidl to be treated as “Large Grocery Retailers”, CMA confirms buff.ly/7qg12Ps

Aldi and Lidl to be treated as “Large Grocery Retailers”, CMA confirms

The UK's competition regulator confirmed its decision to apply the same land agreement rules to the discounters that other major grocers have to follow

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🇬🇧 Waitrose opens first large supermarket in eight years buff.ly/T5GOp31

Waitrose opens first large supermarket in eight years

The ‘full line’ store in Cricklewood, northwest London, and another next month in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, are part of a £1bn investment plan

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🇬🇧 Sainsbury's shares slide as 'tough' conditions slow growth buff.ly/4FBk7MI

Sainsbury's shares slide as 'tough' conditions slow growth

Shares in Sainsbury's tumbled after the supermarket giant posted slowing sales growth and warned of "tough" cost-of-living pressures.

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🇬🇧 Nearly half of Brits aim to cut back on Black Friday spending buff.ly/QntibkB

Nearly half of Brits aim to cut back on Black Friday spending

Nearly half of British shoppers are planning to cut back spending over Black Friday this year, according to cloud communications company Sinch's research exclusively shared with Retail Week.

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🇬🇧 Met Police arrests 42 in major crackdown on stolen retail goods buff.ly/A9UxLyV

Met Police arrests 42 in major crackdown on stolen retail goods - Retail Gazette

The Metropolitan Police has arrested 42 people and issued closure notices to 11 shops following a major crackdown on businesses suspected of buying and reselling stolen retail goods across London....

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🇬🇧 Chocoholics and meat lovers feel brunt of rising UK food prices buff.ly/x2ql8dt

Chocoholics and meat lovers feel brunt of rising UK food prices

Poor cocoa harvests and smaller cattle herds push up costs as trade experts call for energy relief for food and drink sector

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🇬🇧 Bloomsbury ‘confident’ of Harry Potter boost despite share slide buff.ly/djaYyaT

Bloomsbury ‘confident’ of Harry Potter boost despite share slide

Bloomsbury is “confident” that a new Harry Potter TV show will spur the publishing house to record profit.

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🇬🇧 Queues form on Regent Street as H&M drops Elie Saab collection buff.ly/n1QLdO7

Queues form on Regent Street as H&M drops Elie Saab collection - Retail Gazette

H&M’s latest collaboration with Elie Saab launches today [22 October 2026] at 9am, with fashion fans already waiting in line outside the retailer’s Regent Street store. In September, H&M announced...

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🇬🇧 Waitrose opens first new large supermarket in nearly a decade in London buff.ly/Cv5317Y

Waitrose opens first new large supermarket in nearly a decade in ...

The new store forms part of the retailers' £1bn investment plans it set out two years ago and will shortly be followed by another location in Manchester

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🇬🇧 Only marks London debut at Outlet Shopping at The O2 buff.ly/BKGyujb

Only marks London debut at Outlet Shopping at The O2 - Retail Gazette

Outlet Shopping at The O2 has unveiled a series of retail investments across the destination.

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🇬🇧 M&S ‘picky bits’ is brain rot — but also a marketing masterclass buff.ly/BvMNsF9

M&S ‘picky bits’ is brain rot — but also a marketing masterclass

The brilliance of a well-crafted advertisement has been ceded to the internet — but this one by M&S captures the puerility of modern Britain

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🇬🇧 Younger retail workers struggling despite wider wellbeing recovery buff.ly/qbQgtEA

Younger retail workers struggling despite wider wellbeing recovery

Retail workers aged 25 to 44 continue to face the greatest challenges with stress and anxiety, despite overall levels of staff wellbeing in the industry stabilising this year, Retail Week can reveal.

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🇬🇧 Consumer confidence tumbles as firms face ‘tsunami of costs’ buff.ly/oCL90I8

Consumer confidence tumbles as firms face ‘tsunami of costs’

John Healey has been urged to tackle the “tsunami of costs” facing firms as consumer confidence tumbled ahead of the Budget.

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🇬🇧 Sainsbury’s expects challenging run-up to Christmas as households feel squeeze buff.ly/2SCldLr

Sainsbury’s expects challenging run-up to Christmas as households feel squeeze

Supermarket urges government not to ‘further aggravate’ pressure on costs for businesses in next week’s budget

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🇬🇧 Consumer confidence takes sharpest fall since Brexit buff.ly/wI1dMZI

Consumer confidence takes sharpest fall since Brexit

GfK’s survey registered an ‘alarming’ 11-point drop between September and October, wiping out any gains made over summer

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🇬🇧 Waitrose opens first new supermarket in eight years in north London buff.ly/o6ndF0F

Waitrose opens first new supermarket in eight years in north London

Grocer launches Cricklewood store as part of £1bn investment plan, with Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, to follow next month

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🇫🇷 Hermès hit by ‘challenging’ economic backdrop in China and Middle East buff.ly/LeEvhqH

Hermès hit by ‘challenging’ economic backdrop in China and Middle East

Luxury brand’s sales miss forecast despite strong growth in handbags and leather goods

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🇬🇧 Budget 2026: Sainsbury’s boss urges Labour to tackle Neets crisis buff.ly/kLDKt2F

Budget 2026: Sainsbury’s boss urges Labour to tackle Neets crisis

The boss of Sainsbury’s has urged the government to tackle the UK’s youth unemployment crisis at next week's Budget.

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