Retail Week’s strength is its close relationship with some of the most senior retail leaders in the UK. As a way to showcase this, and as a way to bring the focus back to the fundamentals of the industry “Talking Shop” took Retail Week’s journalists on shopping trips with the CEOs of some of the largest retail chains in the UK.

Taking business leaders on a shopping trip enabled conversation to flow much more naturally, creating a more human interaction in a space which can often be highly-scripted and PR-controlled.