Happy Friday! Why not end your week with a browse through some of the retail trends articles that we’ve been reading this week?

• Lidl opens its “Lidl of the Future” in Northamptonshire (pictured above)
• Asda is not taking part in the Black Friday sales this year
• While more personalised services to be launched by Sainsbury’s next year
• John Lewis is opening stores in Europe
• Are robots the key to making bricks and mortar stores competitive again?
• Bricks and Mortar is still king for costume jewellery buyers
• And pop-up retail is now worth an impressive £2.3bn to the UK economy

And on Insider Trends, we discussed Omnichannel vs Multichannel, explored three high end stores to ask what luxury retail looks like in 2015 and explored London’s latest retail openings.

See you next week!