Kien Tan
@kientan74
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Retail deals strategy, start-up adviser & investor, @LesMills instructor, Instagram: kientan74, views my own, etc.
London
Joined July 2014
It's *ok* to be sad that it's over, so long as you're *also* happy that it happened. Thanks to everyone who's come to my classes over the last 16 years - I hope you had as much fun as I did! Stay healthy, wash your hands, and let's do it all again on the other side 😊💪
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While the headlines are all about M&S click & collect returning, the *bigger news* is that M&S yellow stickers are no longer round numbers (£1.25, £2, £2.75 etc) but now back to obscure % reductions. #IYKYK 😉
bbc.co.uk
The retailer stopped taking orders on its website and app for clothing on 25 April.
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🧸 It may not have been "the sole motivating factor", but a reminder from @WoolfsonExists that The Entertainer moving to employee ownership exempts the family from Inheritance Tax, plus payouts from future profits to the Grant family are also tax-free
telegraph.co.uk
The Entertainer is to be placed under ownership of an employee ownership trust
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📉 I mean, *obviously yes*, the ONS needs to be fixed, but. How are you gonna do that without attracting (i.e. paying) top talent?.And what makes you think any of the UK's brightest statisticians want to work in, ummm, Newport, South Wales?.
ft.com
My committee will press for transparency and accountability so that the country’s official data can be trusted
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🤖 Wondering where all those #AmazonFresh vouchers had disappeared to? They’re all buried in your app, they cycle through different combinations, and they all need to be used in the next hour…
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🍝 If the Italians didn't like BBC Good Food's Cacio e Pepe recipe, they are going to LOSE THEIR SH1T when they see what's in @AldiUK's version.
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🇺🇸🍻🇬🇧 About last night… Beer board of dreams at @SuttonArms, featuring bangers from @OtherHalfNYC and @flocbrewing… What a line up!
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🍻🥯 @NewbarnsBrewery Pale Ale at @KingsArmsE2* followed by smoked salmon bagel at Beigel Bake = a pretty much perfect Friday evening. *tequila chasers not pictured 😬 - safe travels, Sean! 🇦🇺
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🐛 There were actually 30 Colins and just 3 Cuthberts, but why let data get in the way of a cheeky Thread, eh?!. @marksandspencer 1 - @AldiUK 0. Source:
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♻️ Groceries delivered to your door in zero waste, 100% reusable packaging. Is it even possible? If you're in London, then it is - why not give it a try 👇
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🚮 A year ago, I wrote what became a viral LinkedIn post about #refillable groceries and why they had failed to take off in the UK (https://lnkd.in/eG4Cyrz7). Paltry offerings from big supermarkets,...
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🥪 WHAT? When did @sainsburys meal deal go up AGAIN*? £3.95 is a 13% increase in 12 months, when inflation was a quarter of that 🤬. *obviously I’m late to this as I usually go to Tesco, which is now *35p* cheaper!
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Right out of the Next playbook onto the Next Total Platform. and a natural bedfellow for JoJo Maman Bebe too.
Seraphine founder Cecile Reinaud returns to brand as adviser after Next buys brand rights to bust maternity group via @FT.
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…although not all food prices are going up of course. As former Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey once said “let them eat turnip”
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🛒 …and today’s BRC shop price index shows food price inflation increasing again from 3.7% in June to 4.0% in July…
📈 If you think today's rise in inflation is "unexpected", you weren't paying attention when @the_brc reported a 0.9% rise in grocery prices two weeks ago.
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Not taking sides on this one, but I'm pretty sure that this kind of predatory pricing and supplier pressure by Amazon would be deemed in breach of competition law if it took place in Europe.
ft.com
Chinese online platform’s hopes of undercutting ecommerce giant rebuffed by American suppliers
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As. I. Was. Saying. (. but also featuring @PwC_UK's comments, so you've got to click).
bbc.co.uk
Supermarkets sold more drinks and fuel sales were up as people "ventured out", the UK statistics body says.
🛍️ There'll be headlines about #retailsales rising in June. However, quarter-on-quarter growth was flat vs 1.6% in Q1, which was the best quarterly rise since the pandemic. So the bigger picture is that the recovery has stalled, as inflation eats into consumer demand.
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And here are our full @PwC_UK comments:
pwc.co.uk
Jacqueline Windsor, Head of Retail at PwC UK, comments on the latest Office of National Statistics retail sales index for June 2025.
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🛍️ There'll be headlines about #retailsales rising in June. However, quarter-on-quarter growth was flat vs 1.6% in Q1, which was the best quarterly rise since the pandemic. So the bigger picture is that the recovery has stalled, as inflation eats into consumer demand.
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🍺 Why, yes, there is Left Handed Giant Brewpub cask on at @SuttonArms. And it has been conditioned beautifully, as per.
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