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Rainy summers and autumn heatwaves, are retail sales seasons dead?

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette explores whether the traditional sales seasons are dead – and what retailers are doing to overcome increasingly unseasonable weather. Other retailers are opting to stock less seasonal product. A washout summer It’s not just cardigans that are trending at John Lewis.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Department stores or apparel stores or malls get back to kind of pretty pandemic levels. Scot: [4:24] So this was a total zero.

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How charity shops became cool

Retail Gazette

Such is the popularity of the format that the UK’s first multi-charity department store , Charity Super.Mkt, opened earlier this year in Brent Cross shopping centre in London. M&S sends unsold stock to charity partners Oxfam, Newlife or SmartWorks. Wackett applauds such initiatives.