The retail group will stop producing the catalog as online now accounts for more than 90% of Littlewoods sales and because of the high costs of printing the catalogue, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Demand for the catalog has been in steady decline and as a result Littlewoods only sent out 300,000 copies of its last catalogue, which compares with a print run of 5 million five years ago and 25 million in its heyday.
Littlewoods calling time on its catalog comes after Home Retail boss John Walden revealed last month that he had been surprised by the…
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A popular bridal shop is going out of business. The House of Fashion Bridal Salon has been a Sacramento staple for nearly 60 years but will close its doors for good next month.
After nearly six decades the shop will be closing its doors for good in a little over a month and they say customers switching to online shopping is part of the reason why.
David Murai owns House of Fashion with his wife and said his mother-in-law started the business in 1959 at 38th and J.
Murai has seen generations of brides combining the racks…
A boom in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic is making it tough to find warehouse space in many provinces, industry insiders say.
Industrial space is being gobbled up at a dizzying rate as companies expand their storage and fulfillment centers to cope with the demands of e-commerce.
“We’re seeing multiple offers on any space that’s available, especially anything that’s existing and you can occupy this year,” said Jason Kiselbach, senior vice-president and managing director of commercial real estate company CBRE Vancouver.
“It’s super competitive.”
At the start of April, the company said Canada’s industrial markets were the tightest in…
As shoppers prepare to welcome Halloween, the Black Friday deals have already arrived.
Major retailers including Target, Best Buy and Walmart are offering Black Friday prices at the same time as Amazon Prime Day on Oct. 13 and 14, the e-commerce company’s two-day shopping event.
“Prime Day is a shopping holiday,” said Best Buy CEO Corie Barry in an interview with NBC News. “That means lots of people are looking for great deals during the shopping holiday and we feel like it’s really important for us to play a role.”
Best Buy announced on Thursday dozens of deals on Oct.…
DUBAI: The strength and influence of Saudi Arabia’s economy in the world marketplace has grown exponentially during the past few decades.
82 percent of consumers in Saudi Arabia think that more brands and businesses from Saudi Arabia are becoming well known around the world, according to “Emerging Trends: The Forces Shaping the Future Today,” a 14-market study conducted by Ipsos and Facebook IQ – the company’s insights division – focusing on consumer trends and habits in emerging markets.
67 percent of Saudi consumers also said that the Kingdom is now more connected to the rest of the world than ever…