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• Profiting from chaos: Looters take advantage of riots to ransack shops

  04-08-2024 13:48 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Looters targeted shops across the UK amid widespread riots last night, taking advantage of the chaos to ransack stores.
  The unrest, which saw buildings set ablaze, also led to significant damage to retail stores alongside a library which was set alight by hooligans.
  In Manchester, a Sainsbury’s Local was forced to shut after it was ‘stormed’ by rioters, with eyewitnesses saying they saw the mob ‘grabbing items and throwing them’ from the city centre store.They&rsquo
  
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• Looters ransack Sainsbury’s, Shoezone, and Specsavers amid riots

  04-08-2024 13:48 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Looters hit shops across the UK amid widespread riots last night, taking advantage of the chaos to ransack stores.
  The unrest, which saw buildings set ablaze, also led to significant damage to retail stores alongside a library which was set alight by hooligans.
  In Manchester, a Sainsbury’s Local was forced to shut after it was ‘stormed’ by rioters, with eyewitnesses saying they saw the mob ‘grabbing items and throwing them’ from the city centre store.They’re d
  
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• Looters hit Sainsbury’s, Shoezone, and Specsavers amid riots

  04-08-2024 13:48 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Looters hit shops across the UK amid widespread riots last night, taking advantage of the chaos to ransack stores.
  The unrest, which saw buildings set ablaze, also led to significant damage to retail stores alongside a library which was set alight by hooligans.
  In Manchester, a Sainsbury’s Local was forced to shut after it was ‘stormed’ by rioters, with eyewitnesses saying they saw the mob ‘grabbing items and throwing them’ from the city centre store.They’re d
  
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• Iceland delays autumn range launch due to warm Septembers

  04-08-2024 12:15 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Iceland is delaying the launch of its autumn range due to the increasingly warm weather in September.
  The frozen food specialist’s boss Richard Walker said Iceland will push back its seasonal shift to mid-September. This includes expanding the range of pies, pastries, and other cool-weather favourites in stores, along with the related promotional activities.
  He noted that the decision was made in response to the UK’s trend of wetter, cooler summers and warmer Septembers, highlighting
  
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• Iceland delays autumn range launch amid warm September

  04-08-2024 12:15 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Iceland is delaying the launch of its autumn range due to the increasingly warm weather in September.
  The frozen food specialist’s boss Richard Walker said Iceland will push back its seasonal shift to mid-September. This includes expanding the range of pies, pastries, and other cool-weather favourites in stores, along with the related promotional activities.
  He noted that the decision was made in response to the UK’s trend of wetter, cooler summers and warmer Septembers, highlighting
  
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• JD.com’s founder ‘still running’ ecommerce group from overseas

  04-08-2024 06:00
  
  Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from London
  
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