Consumer and retail in the news

Issue 505

Here are this week's top stories in the consumer and retail sector:

Duolingo expanding to develop new app to teach music
(Engadget)

Uber Eats to integrate 15,000 recipes from bbcgoodfood.com and olivemagazine.com in new partnership to help shape shopping lists
(Retail Times)

Klimato, the start-up offering sustainability services to measure the carbon footprint of food, announces €4.2 million funding for investment into international growth
(Food Navigator)

McDonald's pledges to issue report on reusable packaging, with a comprehensive study expected in 2024
(Retail Times)

16% of vacant units means Oxford Street has more empty units than the average British high street
(Retail Gazette)

Iceland joins rapid grocery delivery service through partnership with Just Eat 
(Charged Retail)

Sainsbury's moves from plastic to cardboard to package its laundry detergent
(Retail Times)

Fever Tree expands offering to cocktail mixers
(Foodbev)

Ocado provides marketers direct access to consumer behaviour data in sector first 
(Charged Retail)

Asda extends partnership with Claire's to stock more fashion accessories 
(The Retail Bulletin)

Move away from paper receipts as a quarter of UK retailers now exclusively offer them digitally
(Charged Retail)

American Express signs deals with Timpson, B&M and billionaire Issa brothers' EG Group
(Business Live)