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From e-commerce and high street brands to inspirational and trending topics, our weekly series will bring you up to speed on the latest hot topics from across retail, lifestyle and design; covering everything from retailer updates, changes in purchasing behaviour, inspirational case studies, and the latest trends.

 

Fed up with Black Friday? Try going ‘green’ instead

As many people grow disillusioned with Black Friday, a refreshing counter-movement has sprung up on 26 November to promote good causes instead. Here's our guide to how to join in with Green Friday in the UK

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Amazon to stop accepting UK-issued Visa credit cards

Amazon has told customers that it plans to stop accepting payments made with UK-issued Visa credit cards in January.

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GoodWaste repurposes Selfridges scrap materials to create homeware line

Design studio GoodWaste has collaborated with Selfridges to give new life to the department store's waste materials, recycling them into lamps, candles and vases for sale in its London location.

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FatFace brings the fun to minimising waste at Christmas

227,000 miles of wrapping paper is thrown away each year. For the third year in a row, clothing retailer FatFace have devised a simple but innovative solution to minimise waste this Christmas by making their packaging multipurpose.

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How are NFTs changing the fashion industry?

As NTFs become increasingly popular within the fashion sector, Retail Gazette looks at why so many luxury fashion retailers have been so eager to incorporate them and if this shift could have an effect on the wider retail sector.

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Royal Mail unveils new fully-automated parcel sorting machine in run up to Christmas

Royal Mail has installed a new fully-automated parcel sorting machine in its Tyneside site, which is able to process 180,000 parcels per day.

The machine, which was officially opened by Gateshead MP Ian Mearns, is a system of conveyor belts and scanning technology that automatically sorts parcels for despatch within Royal Mail’s network. 

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