UK Business News

Despite the weather doing its best to keep us away from the high street, the retail sector is still holding its own in the run up to Christmas, but our attitudes as purchasers are changing rapidly and the lure of online shopping from the comfort of our own homes is proving too much to resist.
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There is some interesting reading this week regarding the UK alcoholic drinks industry, with reports that sales of both wine and real ale are booming despite or maybe because of the current economic situation.
The specialist drinks industry magazine Drink Business carried out a study into the hitherto little researched market of virtual wine sales in [...]

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Shop Direct, the company that bought the famous Woolworths brand name in February have said that they have had over one million visitors to the newly launched woolworths.co.uk online shopping site during it’s first week of trading.
Although no actual sales figures have been given the company says that in the first week consumers had ordered [...]

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Shop Direct have revived the Woolworths name as part of their online shopping experience. The UK’s biggest home shopping retailer bought the brand name in February.
Woolworths.co.uk went live online on Thursday, offering consumers the opportunity to purchase over half a million products, including children’s clothes and toys, video games, cd’s, dvd’s and of course the [...]

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Buying online has become increasingly popular in the UK, in 2007 a staggering £21.4billion was spent in the internet shopping market. Over 20 million of us shopped online in 2007, so how does ‘e retail’ compare to the good old fashioned way of high street retailing?
Feefo is the only independent forum for online customer service feedback and [...]

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