2026 – Page 3 – Retail Now

Next hikes profit forecast to £1.24bn as heatwave boosts sales

5 August 2026 Editor

Next has delivered another successful quarter, with sales up and driven by a surge in international online demand and warm summer weather across the UK, full-price sales for the 13 weeks to 1 Aug 2026 […]

Next opens its largest UK store

4 August 2026 Editor

Next has opened its largest UK store at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, tripling its footprint at the shopping centre to 132,000 sq ft in a relaunch designed by London-based studio Dalziel & Pow. […]

Asda rolls out Auror crime reporting platform following successful London pilot

4 August 2026 Editor

Asda is rolling out Auror, a crime reporting and intelligence platform, across the retailer’s entire store estate following a successful 10 week pilot programme in 30 London stores. The pilot delivered significant improvements in how […]

Sainsbury’s agrees sale of Argos to Swift Partners

31 July 2026 Editor

Sainsbury’s is to sell Argos to Swift Partners for around £120m – substantially less than the £1.4bn it paid for the brand in 2016. Sainsbury’s said it would be “business as usual” for Argos customers, […]

Argos revives catalogue experience with a new personalised app

29 July 2026 Editor

Argos has launched ‘Your Catalogue’, an new feature embedded directly within the Argos mobile app. Rolling out from today (29th July,) the feature reimagines the beloved classic print catalogue into a modern, digital-first browsing experience […]

Frasers builds Burberry position to become third-largest shareholder

29 July 2026 Editor

A regulatory filing from Frasers Group shows the company expanded its financial interest in Burberry from 3.05% to 4.16%. The entire position is held through sold put options linked to Burberry shares, rather than through […]

Aldi slashes prices across 300 products under £100m investment

29 July 2026 Editor

Aldi has invested a further £100m to cut the price of 330 products, helping to support families through the school holidays. These latest cuts mean that Aldi has reduced the price of over 1,000 products […]

Morrisons is the first UK retailer to deploy Instacart’s AI-powered Caper smart trolleys

29 July 2026 Editor

Morrisons has rolled out Instacart’s Caper smart trolleys at Morrisons’ Preston supermarket. Making the supermarket the first in the UK to use the Instacart trolleys and joins over 100 stores in the US and Australia […]

CMA investigates Microsoft over marketing of subscription plans

29 July 2026 Editor

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Microsoft following concerns that customers may not have been given clear information upfront about subscription options when changes were made to Microsoft 365 Personal […]

One in three shoppers say stores fall short of their real-time expectations

29 July 2026 Editor

Physical retail is failing to meet customers’ demands for real-time responsiveness as their expectations for more reactive retail experiences are accelerated by e-commerce and AI, the latest data from SAI, the leading active intelligence solution […]