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• Fresh ‘manty’ and cheap figs: a post-Soviet supermarket becomes a must-visit spot in NYC

  24-12-2025 16:00
  Tashkent Supermarket’s new West Village location offers staples like plovand samsas hot and fresh – a taste of Central Asia for everyoneWhen I first stepped into the Tashkent Supermarket in Brighton Beach, I could barely get around. The store was bustling, packed with the familiar unsmiling faces of post-Soviet people eager to get their hands on foods like manty – intricately shaped dumplings filled with minced beef, onion and, depending on where you’re from, pumpkin for
  
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• Retail Gazette’s most read stories of 2025

  24-12-2025 15:30 via retailgazette.co.uk
  It’s been another eventful year for the UK retail sector.
  At Retail Gazette we’ve covered the highs and lows across the industry.
  From Asda to Ikea. From store closures to new openings. From recycling to rebrands.
  Here are our most read stories of 2025.Related Story Investment group acquires three long-standing grocery stores in £98m deal24/12/2025 x 9:05 AM1, Poundland kicks off closing down sale with hundreds of items from 10p
  2, Currys doubles cash-for-trash reward to e
  
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• ‘I’ll never say I’m popping to Jones’s’: shoppers yet to feel love for WH Smith’s high street replacement

  24-12-2025 13:00
  TG Jones took over stores six months ago but consumers have noticed little change or investment“It’s just the same.” Six months on from the sale of WH Smith’s high street business, the name above the door may have changed to TG Jones, but many shoppers have not noticed a splurge of investment or change.“The layout is the same and what they are selling is the same,” says Gillian Parsons as she exits TG Jones on a busy high street in the market town of Hitchin,
  
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• Sensormatic Solutions: Footfall was ‘stubbornly muted’ on 23 December

  24-12-2025 12:33 via retailgazette.co.uk
  Footfall was “stubbornly muted” yesterday (23 December), according to research from Sensormatic Solutions.
  The platform’s ShopperTrak Analytics data said store visits fell by -13.1% when compared to last year. It also revealed visits to retail parks declined -.8.6% year-on-year.
  However, the firm recorded that week-on-week shopper traffic was up 64.8% on 23 December, with shopping centres seeing a 74.3% rise in the amount of visits compared with the week before. It also showed
  
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• Feather & Black opens new standalone stores

  24-12-2025 11:52 via retailgazette.co.uk
  Feather & Black, part of Dreams, has opened two standalone stores in London’s Kingston and Tottenham Court Road.
  They are the brand’s first dedicated openings since 2020 and form part of Dreams‘ strategy to increase its growth.
  The shops will feature eleven of the brand’s bed ranges, matching furniture and mattress assortment. including collaborations with Vispring and Hypnos.Related Story Dreams completes purchase of ‘Bedquarters’ head office20/10/2025 x
  
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• Mothercare reports 25% fall in worldwide retail sales

  24-12-2025 11:32 via retailgazette.co.uk
  British parent and baby brand Mothercare has reported worldwide retail sales through franchise partners were £90.7 million, a 25% decrease from last year.
  The retailer put the figure down to store closures in its Middle Eastern markets and its planned exit from Boots.
  Mothercare has published its half-year results for the 26-week period to 27 September 2025, which highlighted that on a like-for-like basis, retail sales were down 6% on last year.
  “Mothercare is making good progress ag
  
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• Investment group acquires three long-standing grocery stores in £98m deal

  24-12-2025 10:05 via retailgazette.co.uk
  Supermarket Income Real Estate Investment Trust (SUPR) has strengthened its UK grocery portfolio with the acquisition of three well-established supermarkets for £97.6m.
  The newly acquired stores – operated by Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose – have long trading histories and have been secured at an average net initial yield of 5.5%.
  All three are let on long, inflation-linked, triple-net leases, aligning with SUPR’s strategy of targeting resilient grocery locations w
  
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• Christmas Eve is ‘busiest day’ to buy Prosecco at Co-op

  24-12-2025 09:59 via retailgazette.co.uk
  New data from supermarket chain Co-op has highlighted that bottles of Prosecco outsell pints of milk on Christmas Eve.
  According to the retailer, it is the busiest day for shoppers to ‘pop’ a bottle of Prosecco into their festive shop.
  To meet this demand, the firm has sent around 250,000 bottles to its stores, expecting sales to average to more than a bottle every second.Related Story Co-operative merger sees creation of UK’s largest independent retailer04/12/2025 x 9:18 AMReb
  
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• Boots Hearingcare brings back The Great Big Hearing Test

  24-12-2025 09:42 via retailgazette.co.uk
  Health retailer Boots Hearingcare has relaunched The Great Big Hearing Test for 2026.
  It comes as audiologists warn that millions may be withdrawing from conversations and social events due to undiagnosed hearing loss.
  According to Boots Hearingcare, the Christmas period can act as a “pressure test” for hearing loss.Related Story Boots Hearingcare launches its ‘UK-first’ World of Hearing store06/07/2021 x 2:53 PMResearch shows that 64% of those with hearing loss “fi
  
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• Conversation with… People in Retail Awards Judge Faye Ryder-Humphries

  24-12-2025 09:17 via theretailbulletin.com
  TRB is delighted to announce that Faye Ryder-Humphries, people director at Wingstop UK&I, will be a judge for next year’s People in Retail Awards. Here we... View Article
  
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• R.M. Williams to open first store in Scotland

  24-12-2025 09:03 via theretailbulletin.com
  Australian bootmaker R.M. Williams is to open its first store in Scotland in Edinburgh next month. Due to launch on 22 January, the shop will be... View Article
  
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• Mothercare looks to ‘rebuild’ at scale after first half sales decline

  24-12-2025 08:27 via theretailbulletin.com
  Mothercare has reported a drop in first half sales as it looks ahead to “rebuilding at scale” in the UK and globally. In the six months... View Article
  
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• ‘A gamechanger’: 200,000 UK small businesses sign up to TikTok Shop

  24-12-2025 08:00
  Big brands such as Sainsbury’s and M&S also selling directly in app through links in videos and livestreamsIt is better known for its viral dances and for making hits out of forgotten songs, but the social media site TikTok is becoming a force to be reckoned with as a shopping platform.Major retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Samsung, QVC, Clarks, and Sainsbury’s are now selling their wares on the site’s e-commerce service, TikTok Shop, alongside more than 200,000 UK sm
  
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• Wednesday briefing: What your Christmas cranberries reveal about the climate crisis

  24-12-2025 07:45
  In today’s newsletter: Extreme weather and fragile supply chains are pushing up food costs – and raising fears of instabilityGood morning. Have you done your Christmas food shop yet? If so, you probably felt the sting before you reached the checkout. From turkeys to trees, much of what makes Christmas feel like, well, Christmas, now comes with a noticeably higher price tag.The prices of ingredients for a traditional Christmas meal and festive treats have risen sharply this year, pili
  
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• Ikea muscles in on the last-minute stocking-stuffer trade

  24-12-2025 06:00
  City stores in prominent locations double up as billboards to drive online sales
  
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