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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Asda, Lidl, New Look, eBay, Asos, Hazaar, Sainsbury’s, Boots, Vestiaire Collective, Juicy Couture and Matalan. Plus why AI browsers could rewrite online retail strategies, why high-tech security measures may keep shoppers away and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Asda cuts price on almost 1000 products
Asda has announced a major round of price reductions today, cutting the cost of 956 everyday grocery products both in-store and online.
Lidl announces a £250m price-cuts for Christmas
Lidl GB has announced a £250m investment in cutting prices of everyday items in the run-up to the Christmas sales period.
Modella Capital weighs up bid for New Look
New Claire’s Accessories owner Modella Capital is understood to be considering a potential bid for embattled womenswear brand New Look.
Hazaar launches UK’s first student-focused marketplace
The UK’s first student-focused ecommerce marketplace, Hazaar, has launched. The platform connects students with brands selling excess stock at prices tailored to student budgets.
Sainsbury’s unveils Christmas recruitment drive
Sainsbury’s has launched a nationwide festive recruitment drive with 17,000 roles at Sainsbury’s and 2,000 at Argos.
Lidl investment in price tops £250m ahead of Christmas rush
Discount giant Lidl has announced it has invested £250m in price this year, ahead of the all-important festive trading season.
Boots to recruit for over 6,000 seasonal roles
Boots is recruiting more than 6,000 seasonal roles across its stores, warehouses and customer support centre as it prepares for the busy Christmas trading period.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Why AI browsers could rewrite online retail strategies
Perplexity has made its AI-powered web browser, Comet, available for free worldwide - as the race to dominate AI-driven browsing accelerates.
Why high-tech security measures may keep shoppers away
Retailers are alienating their own customers with inconvenient and intrusive security measures that could be as damaging to profits as the theft itself, according to GlobalData.
The true cost of cyber-attacks and the business weak spots that allow them to happen
The BBC finds that this year's major cyber-attacks are the result of a "cumulative effect of a kind of inaction" on cyber security from the government and businesses that is now starting to bite?
Is retail ready for OpenAI Instant Checkout?
OpenAI has officially announced the launch of its Instant Checkout, a feature that allows users to buy directly from merchants within ChatGPT but is retail ready.
The top 100 most reputable companies in the UK
Lego, Lush, Patagonia & Sony top the list of the most reputable companies in the UK, while X, Evri, Royal Mail & Ryanair fall to the bottom, reveals a major new study of 10,000 consumers.
Most UK consumers would rather avoid chatbots, putting loyalty at risk
AI-powered customer service is falling short for consumers and is costing brands loyalty and sales. With only 5% of UK consumers saying they would prefer to use a chatbot or automated assistant.
Nearly half of Brits now talk cybersecurity over the kitchen table
Cybersecurity has become a major family talking point with 43% discussing the topic over dinner and 74% saying they’re more concerned about cybersecurity today than two years ago.
eBay UK collaborates with OpenAI to launch AI scheme for small businesses
eBay is launching a new £3m programme in collaboration with OpenAI to support up to 10,000 UK small businesses with AI tools and training.
Asos launches live shopping experience
After completing a “successful” trial, Asos has launched its video shopping service ‘Asos Live’, the solution allows consumers to watch videos – live or on-demand – and shop products instantly.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Vestiaire Collective taps Bernard Osta as CEO
Luxury resale platform Vestiaire Collective has named Bernard Osta as its new chief executive officer. Osta succeeds Maximilian Bittner, who has served in the helm position since 2018.
BRAND NEWS
Iceland expands retail media network with video and auction-based buying model
Iceland has announced that it is expanding its retail media network with offsite media, onsite video formats, and a new auction-based buying model.
Matalan to overhaul loyalty scheme and refresh mobile app
Matalan is set to relaunch its loyalty scheme and refresh its mobile app in the new year, as part of its ongoing business transformation.
Juicy Couture taps Angel Reese as global ambassador
Juicy Couture has tapped two-time WNBA All-Star and cultural icon Angel Reese as its new global ambassador and creative collaborator.
Matalan and Little Mistress reunite with Vicky Pattison for party season
Matalan has unveiled the second instalment of its collaboration with womenswear brand Little Mistress and TV personality Vicky Pattison. See the Matalan archive to download the images.
AND FINALLY x2
eBay and Trinny Woodall launch the ultimate designer sale
The King’s Trust, Trinny Woodall and eBay have joined together to create the ‘Ultimate Designer Sale’ a charity auction with a host of celebrity pieces for resale.
Snapchat users share fury at upcoming fees for storing old photos and videos
One-star reviews and a sense of injustice have dominated online discussion since Snapchat became the latest tech firm to put a price tag on a service people previously enjoyed for free.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Oct 3rd 2025?
1/ Christmas
2/ AW25
3/ Halloween
4/ Dress
5/ Coat
6/ Brown
7/ Pyjamas
8/ Boots
9/ Scarf
10/ Jumper
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Halloween – 24
Days until Black Friday - 52
Days until Christmas Day – 79
Days until Valentine’s Day - 130
How to make your products attractive to the media in October
Our October PR toolkit and content calculator is here to help PRs and marketers forward-plan campaigns and pitches armed with some timely and topical angles, plus it’s a checklist for potential campaign hooks.
We’re into autumn, and the nights are starting to draw in, and the heating is probably on. The media are looking for images that reflect the changes, so anything that looks cosy and warm is suitable; roaring fires, big jumpers, coats, hats, knitwear, scarves, and wellies in a leaf-strewn outdoors – all the clichés – are what the media are looking for.
If you can do some night shots with sparklers, then you’re also ticking the boxes for Bonfire Night next month. We also have Halloween at the end of the month, so if you can get a pumpkin in your images, then you’re hitting two birds with one stone.
You should be adding Christmas images, and for those magazines with very long lead times, then start to look for the images of people working off the Christmas excesses for the January issues.
Don’t forget to add keywords like Gifts, Christmas, Xmas, Autumn, Winter, Halloween, Fireworks night and Bonfire night, as they will be looked for from now. Also, PRShots has a worldwide audience, so add those American holiday versions e.g. The Holidays, Fall, Pumpkin Day, Thanksgiving, etc and words like hygge that are starting to enter the language and are associated with the autumn.
Media will also be searching for party outfits for Halloween, Guy Fawkes, and the office party season - which will soon be with us some businesses have their Christmas parties in November.
The media are also starting to look for and create Christmas gift guides, so try and be creative, do ones for every eventuality e.g. gifts guides for him/her/mum/dad/kids/teenagers/pets etc also gifts under £150/100/£50 and guides for secret Santa’s gifts under £20.
Please put prices on everything!!! Otherwise, you stand no chance of getting into any of the features that include “Presents under £50”, “Party dresses for £150”, etc.
If you’re a PRShots brand user and you need more ideas, then take a look at the keywords that media are searching for on PRShots and try and add those in.
If you’re looking for more hooks to help promote your brand and products, then see the list of days, weeks and fortnights below.
October Diary - Weeks/Months
October is also known as ‘Stoptober’, which started as a campaign around giving up cigarettes, but is now joined by MacMillans Go Sober for October, so if you have anything non-alcoholic, then get it on PRShots and make sure you add Stoptober and non-alcoholic as keywords.
It’s also Black History Month, Wool Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Menopause Month, Vegetarian Awareness Month, Apple Month, Cookie Month, Spinach Lovers' Month, Pork Month, and National Pasta, Chilli, and Pizza Month.
Fashion and Beauty Weeks and events include – Shetland Wool Week (28th Sep – 4th Oct), Paris Fashion Week (29th Sept - 7th Oct), Ascot Fashion Weekend (3rd-5th), National Wedding Show Birmingham (4th -5th), National Wedding Show London (18th -19th), British Beauty Week (20th-26th), Gran Canaria Swim Week (22nd- 25th ), The Baby Show (24th-26th), National Wedding Show Manchester (25th -26th).
British Food Fortnight (26th Sep - 12th Oct)
National Vegetarian Week (1st – 7th)
Work Life Week (6th- 10th)
National Curry Week (6th-12th )
National Chocolate Week (12th-18th)
National School Lunch week US (13 th-17th)
National Baking Week (14th-20th)
October - Days
7th – National LED Light Day
10th – UN World Mental Health Day
10th – National Cake Decorating Day
11th – National Coming Out Day (UK/US)
11th – UN International Day of the Girl
12th-13th – Hoshana Rabbah
13th – Last Day of Sukkot – Jewish Holiday
13th – National Yorkshire Pudding Day (US)
13th – National No Bra Day
13th-15th – Shemini Atzeret
14th-15th - Simchat Torah
16th – UN World Food Day
16th – Department store day
18th – National Chocolate Cup Cake Day (US)
18th – World Menopause Day
19th – International Gin & Tonic Day
20th – Diwali (check for change)
20th – National Office Chocolate Day (US)
25th – World Pasta Day
25th – 2 months until Christmas Day
26th – National Pumpkin Day
26th – Clocks go back tonight
27th – National American Beer Day
27th – Global Champagne Day
28th – National Chocolate Day (US)
29th – National Cat Day (US)
31st – Halloween
NB - All dates have been checked, but some events may change due to unforeseen circumstances or have not been fully confirmed for 2025 by the authorities controlling the event(s).
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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS
Gardena has been producing products and solutions for the garden for more than 50 years and operates in more than 100 countries. Products and services include watering, lawn care, tree and shrub care and soil cultivation.
Flymo invented the hover mower more than 50 years ago, and since then Flymo have become the market leaders in the design and innovation of unique gardening products, which makes gardening easier.
Salts Cashmere has launched a unisex range of cashmere jumpers and tops that are made in Yorkshire.
BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing, beauty and accessories
Primark has a new Edit range, breast cancer awareness ranges of post-surgery bras, a new Rita Ora collaboration for AW25, new Stranger Things themed ranges, new denim ranges, Premium Essentials and Kem ranges.
River Island has new Heritage, Nostalgia and Studio womenswear ranges, a new collaboration with Olivia Attwood, new Suede season handbags, plus new ranges of clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories and new denim ranges.
Regatta has an Orla Kiely collaboration, plus new kids, womens and menswear for winter walks and hikes, including coats, jackets, fleeces and waterproofs, plus boots, scarves and hats.
Matalan has new collaboration with Little Mistress Vicky Pattison, Grinch & Cindy themed clothing ranges for the family, new AW25 men and women’s wear, a new Alder Hey hospital collaboration, Halloween kids costumes, new baby, toddler and kids wear ranges, Et Vous ranges of women’s shoes and boots, men and women’s autumn winter ranges including Happily Denim After ranges.
Monsoon has a new collaboration with Sarah Corbett-Winder, AW25 clothing, jewellery and accessories, including bags, shoes, boots, scarves and jewellery, new wedding and bridal ranges.
TK Maxx has new fashion accessory ranges including scarves, bags and jewellery.
Roman Originals has new AW25 Dusk, Curve and Petite ranges, plus outfits with this year’s must-haves, crochet and embroidery/broderie anglaise, big-pattern midi-length dresses and Bardot tops.
Cotton Traders has new Will Mellow and Alex Jones collaboration lines, plus winter clothing ranges including coats, cardigans, trousers and Christmas jumpers.
M&S has new Christmas clothing collections and Collection and Autograph clothing, accessories and jewellery, plus ballet shoe ranges, and new kids ranges of clothes and shoes.
Oliver Bonas has new November autumnal womenswear including coats, jumpers, cardigans, trousers, scarves and shoes, plus jewellery and clothing.
Joe Browns has new Christmas party and cosy evenings in outfits for men and women, Christmas jumpers and gifts for him and her, and Christmas bags, clothes, slippers, boots, shoes, jewellery and accessories.
Barbour has new collaborations with Paul Smith, Farm Rio and a collaboration with Kaptain Sunshine collaboration of outdoor wear, new Heritage ranges, clothing ranges plus new outfits and footwear for the festival season.
New Look has new autumn drops of AW25 ranges including clothes, bags, shoes, boots and accessories, plus new womenswear outfits and cowboy core womenswear drops.
Accessorize has a charm advent calendars, new AW25 womenswear, new jewellery, charms, socks, hats, scarves and wraps for Christmas, a new Palma range of womenswear shoes and accessories.
Bonmarché has a new Lisa Snowdon and Lorraine Kelly Christmas collections, new Christmas womenswear collections and Dash and Autonomy ranges of AW25 clothing.
Sims Wear has new women’s and men’s clothes and accessory ranges.
F&F has new Kids and womenswear Christmas clothing ranges, autumn womenswear ranges, a new Kate Ferdinand active wear collaboration.
George at Asda has new AW25 womenswear ranges of clothes and boots and an Erica Davies collaboration, plus the Tickled Pink cancer charity clothing ranges for Breast Cancer awareness month.
The Orchard has Christmas gifting clothing ranges for men and women.
Deichmann has new AW25 ranges of shoes, trainers, bags and boots for women.
Very has a new Michelle Keegan collaboration, new Elegant Opulence, Future Heirlooms and West Country Craft drops for its new Very Collection range of women’s clothing which includes the labels V by Very and Everyday, new Halloween outfits, including Addams Family ranges.
Inspecs has new Regen Optics glasses to reduce glare, blue light, plus lenses to enhance gaming, as well as campaign imagery of sunglasses for men and women from Radley, Superdry and Botaniq.
Peacocks has new AW25 ranges, including a Dani Dyer Collection and a Louise Redknapp Edit.
John Lewis has new Topshop range, AW25 kidswear and womenswear lookbook images, plus bags, shoes, boots and accessories, a John Lewis x Rejina Pyo new collection.
Threadbare has new menswear and women’s wear ranges for the autumn and winter.
Fable England has a new range of scarves, bags, and jewellery plus Agnes jewellery, nightwear, scarf and bag range for the autumn.
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Home, garden and food
Quorn Stone has new natural stone range, marble and decorative effect tiles, Parisian Manoir, Lullington, Chalfont and Orotelli decorative tiles, plus new natural stone and Canyon Terrazzo effect porcelain tiles.
Regatta has an Orla Kiely collaboration of thermos mugs, cool bags, picnic rugs and totes.
Habitat has new Christmas decorations for the home and the tree.
TK Maxx has new things for the home.
Hobbycraft has new Halloween and autumnal projects.
M&S has a new Kelly Hoppen collaboration, new Christmas homeware for the kitchen, bedroom and lounge plus decorations for the tree and the home.
Oliver Bonas has a new Shrimps collaboration of homeware, new furniture, Christmas decorations, gifts and things for the home, plus new November/October drops of homeware ranges for the lounge, bedroom, kitchen, dining room and lounge for AW25.
The Orchard has new home interiors, Christmas furnishings, tabletop fire pits and mini pizza ovens, artificial Christmas tree ranges, new Miami Corner Group sofa, new autumn and Halloween decorations.
Arran Sense of Scotland has new festive collections, Island Dusk range, 2025 Christmas gift packs and an advent calendar, new refill packages, home fragrances, scented candles, plus a new mum and bride scent range.
Joe Browns has new Christmas gifts, plus homeware including lights, faux plants, signs, lamp shades, dining and drink ware, trays, coasters, stools, side tables soft furnishings, prints and throws.
Primark has a new lowkey luxury ranges, a new Viral Product range, Halloween decorations and gifts, back-to-college ranges, harvest festival ranges of decorations, and Edit homeware ranges.
Treats by Mars has new vegan Galaxy dairy-free biscuits and selection boxes, Malteser gingerbread cake bars, Mars and Snickers flavour milk drinks, M&M festive and Halloween hot chocolate kits and Galaxy hot chocolate ranges.
B&M has its Christmas Gift Guide for her, Frosted Night, Nordic Glow, Peaceful Wishes, Snow Much Fun and Festive Folklore Christmas decorations, homeware for back to college, university Halloween decorations and accessories.
Homesense has new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home, new furniture and accessory ranges for the kitchen and living room, including soft furnishings, dishes and glassware.
Very has new homeware for the kitchen and lounge, new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home, plus Christmas toys and homeware.
Cambridge Imprint has place cards, notebooks, patterned papers, new notecards and envelopes, Christmas cards, garlands, paper chains, coronets, banners, plus notebooks, and exercise books.
Designers Guild has new AW25 accessory ranges, and new Trevenna AW25 ranges of big-patterned print material for curtains and soft furnishings.
Matalan has Christmas decorations and gifts, AW25 homeware for the autumn including Halloween and Harvest Festival themed soft furnishings.
Dobbies Garden Centres has Halloween decorations, autumn houseplants, a new RHS collaboration range of gifts, plus Christmas decorations, gifts and food.
Ruggable has a range of Christmas themed rugs and carpets, plus Halloween and Autumn-themed doormats as well as rugs in autumn colours.
Accessorize has new Christmas decorations for the tree.
George Home has Tickled Pink cancer charity food and drink ranges for Breast Cancer awareness month and has new AW25 Cosy Autumn, Autumn Revival, French Fancy and Serene ranges of tableware, tables, lights, candles, cushions, and soft furnishings.
Jellycat has new Christmas cuddly toys and tree decorations, new Halloween themed cuddly toys and amuseables, plus new designs and bag charms.
John Lewis has its new Ancient Wonders, Worldly Treasures and Heirloom Splendour ranges of Christmas 2025 decorations and homeware, and a new collaboration with John Cooper and AW25 lookbook images from its Heritage, Modern Luxe and Timeless range of homeware collections.
Oriana B has new furniture ranges including side tables, sideboards.
Ivyline has a selection of Autumn and Halloween decorations, Christmas trees, tree decorations, lights and decorations for the home plus candle holders, pots and vases.
Home Bargains has new autumn and Halloween things for the home as well as Christmas decorations and homeware.
Dunelm has a new homeware for the autumn, plus festive Kitschmas collaboration with designer Sophie Robinson, a new AW25 Modern Nostalgia, Into the Wild, Harvest Hues and Quite Luxury collections of homeware including furniture, bedding, curtains, soft furnishings.
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