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 Footfall increases in April but empty shops reach new highWarmer weather boosted retail footfall in April to give the strongest performance since December 2011. However, the town centre vacancy rate reached a new high as some areas of the UK such as the South West saw a significant in... |  Debenhams signs up to new code for fair treatment of modelsDebenhams has become the first retailer to sign up to the Equity code for the fair treatment of models which will apply to models featured in all of its photo shoots, TV ads, PR ‘look books’ and images on website. |
 Central Square shopping centre to be redevelopedBirmingham City Council has granted planning permission for the redevelopment of Erdington’s Central Square shopping mall and town centre. |  New survey: best and worst high street shops revealedBook and stationery retailer WH Smith has been voted the worst shop on the high street in a survey of 11,000 shoppers. |
 Retail round up – the Sunday papersTesco to battle 'breathtaking’ level of food waste, Bolland 'has backing of M&S board’, Are Waitrose and Ocado heading for a divorce?, Tesco hits Silk Road, Ocado tells Waitrose to calm down, M&S staff bonus at risk, Bidding war burger... |  Discuss customer loyalty strategy with our experts at Customer Loyalty 2013Intelligent Customer Engagement specialists, Capillary, is the latest solution provider to bring their expertise to the Retail Bulletin’s 4th Customer Loyalty Summit 2013. |
 Conference preview: Retailers need to recognise they are in the business of loyaltyLoyalty programmes should be regarded as long-term strategic initiatives rather than tools to simply drive increased sales in the short-term by distributing rewards to customers. By Glynn Davis |  Yorkshire pharmacy chain enters top 10 in rankings of 500 major UK retailers in Q2Little known Yorkshire-based family-owned pharmacy chain HI Weldrick dramatically shot up the table of the best performing websites in Q2 with a climb of 423 places. By Glynn Davis |
 Top 20 retail revenue producers offer mobile appsNew Digby analysis reveals continued mobile app adoption within retail and hospitality |  Morrisons signs deal with Ocado to launch online grocery serviceMorrisons has signed a longterm agreement with online grocer Ocado which will enable it to launch its first online grocery delivery service by January 2014. |
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