Yeah the ADSL microfilter I bought last week was quite the giveaway

Breaking: Amazon UK revenue for 2023 just revealed in page 69 of 10-K filing. Sales up 11.7% to $33,591m. Using average daily exchange rates that's +10.7% to £27.0bn. Far outstripping the online pureplay market which grew just 2.3% last year

"yeah we'll drop the price 3% and make it 10% smaller, no one will notice" #shrinkflation

Amazon's AI showing its power here after my purchase of two smoke alarms yesterday

Hillarious defence from Air Canada "we are not liable for our own AI chatbot's error". That they lost shows the problems retailers could face without very careful AI implementation. theregister.com/2024/02/15/air…

Something very fishy about The Body Shop administration. Selling parts of business immediately and pushing UK into administration within weeks of acquisition? A private equity firm claiming to have messed up due diligence, and now this... thetimes.co.uk/article/body-s….

Top trolling from The North Face as it desperately tries to stop gammons buying its clothes itv.com/news/2024-03-0…

John Lewis financial results release is noticeably shorter and less detailed than previous years. And zero mentions of "Anyday".

Legoland, not exactly a bastion of value in the first place, to adopt gouge pricing ft.com/content/1e58ae… via Financial Times

News that Amazon is abandoning its Just Walk Out technology at Amazon Fresh has created a lot of chatter and interest. Amid the noise, there are a number of important things to unpack. 🏪 First, Amazon is not entirely abandoning Just Walk Out technology; it is only removing it

Voting intention of customers by (non-food) retailer: Labour lead in all of them. Labour lead weakest in Dunelm (older, home owning shoppers), strongest at ASOS, with its much younger demographic.

Election tomorrow. FIND YOUR PHOTO ID. PUT IT IN YOUR POCKET OR BAG. The address DOESN'T need to match your constituency or current address. This is just to prove your ID. Passport, driving license, PASS card or Voter Certificate, or this stuff: electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

Amazingly the John Lewis restructure story is an exclusive in Retail Week AND Retail Gazette ! So who was first, George MacDonald or Aoife Morgan ?