Retail's Inner Circle
Your private membership for straight talking retail insight.

Weekly store observations, monthly Q&A sessions, video walkthroughs from the shop floor alongside our signature image backed analysis. Direct and unfiltered.

Built for leaders who want real world clarity and someone to tell them why it matters.
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The latest insights gained during our numerous store visits. The best in class, latest operational innovations, in-store developments and cutting edge analysis too.

Written by Steve Dresser, CEO

"The man supermarket CEOs turn to" - BBC

Yearly Circle Subscription

Core Subscription £948 p.a

Store Subscription £290 p.a

Or £79 / £29 per month

Subscribe to Circle and get 52x weekly summary emails of our Circle content.

Access exclusive content and video based walkthroughs and Q&A with Steve Dresser.

Need 5 or more subscriptions?
Contact our Corporate account team via email [email protected].

Digital Subscription. Billed today as £948 for 1 year, or £79 a month. Store teams £290 for 1 year, or £29 per month.

Renews automatically each billing period. We will notify you of any price increases in advance. Cancel auto renewal at any time.

What you'll receive

In-depth insights, perspectives and observations to ensure you stay ahead of the curve.
Our summary emails are sent to you on a weekly basis, you'll never miss a thing, again,
Expert Perspectives

Our unique perspective is trusted by professionals across the world, benefit from our industry leading observations.

Video Walkthroughs

Benefit from our store walk throughs, where we share our images from store visits, articulating what this means, for you.

Virtual - Q&A

We host a monthly Q&A for subscribers to pose their questions on the market, investment views or general retailer sentiment.

Digital Subscription. Billed today as £948 for 1 year, or £79 per month. Renews automatically each billing period and we will notify you of any price increases in advance. Cancel renewal at any time.

Digital Subscription. Billed today as £290 for 1 year, or £29 per month. Renews automatically each billing period and we will notify you of any price increases in advance. Cancel renewal at any time. Store teams only.

Steve Dresser, CEO

"The man supermarket CEOs turn to" - BBC

Get insights like these in your inbox every week

These aren’t curated or rewritten retail news stories. These are our impartial insights of what’s happening on the ground. Free from political agenda, affiliation or bias. To help retailers, consultants, business analysts, investors, trainers and anyone involved with retail do better. Faster.

Digital Subscription. Billed today as £948 for 1 year, or £79 per month. Renews automatically each billing period and we will notify you of any price increases in advance. Cancel renewal at any time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Circle is the platform which our service now lives, it allows us to vary billing easier (IE monthly, or annually) and also enables video, sharing of documents, frameworks and posts in one easy to access site.

Circle is the full members package, you’re able to benefit from our insight and analysis directly in to the platform. The free newsletter in a weekly email that is sent out to users with older content featured. 

Steve Dresser and his team will curate the content and write the posts, and share imagery. Steve will also host the store based walkthroughs each month. 

With Circle, you get an email per week (or per day, or per post) depending on your requirements. These are sent automatically to summarise the content that has been posted in the week. 

There are spaces for Aisle 6 (our core insight week to week) alongside store based walkthroughs once per month too. There’s also a space for retro retail and one tracking retail media as well.

You’ll get our expert perspectives, clear photographs from stores all over the world, actionable recommendations, best practice examples, latest innovations and developments with findings you won’t get anywhere else. 

Circle is for anyone who is interested in retail and would like to have a deeper understanding of the industry. 

Our subscribers include leading retailers, investment analysts, marketers, suppliers, journalists, industry experts and anyone who is in or around retail. 

Click ‘join’ and you will be directed to the checkout where you can make a payment for your subscription. You will be automatically billed each billing period and will be charged accordingly per billing period, whether that’s monthly or annually. 

Simply log in to Circle and elect to cancel your membership at any time. 

Please ensure that you read everything on this page about your purchase. If you are unsure, contact us so we can guide you further. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the information that we distribute we can’t offer a refund once your subscription has been initiated.

We accept all major credit and debit cards via Circle, our payment processor. We also feature the ability to pay via Google Pay and Apple Pay.

Where this is available, it will appear as an option on the product page or checkout. We can also generate an invoice and accept payments via BACS. For any other payment methods, please don’t hesitate to get in touch to discuss.

For each Retail by Email subscription, this covers one singular email address. If you would like to subscribe more people to Circle, you will need to place a subscription order for each additional person/email address.

If you would like to discuss subscriptions for your teams, please contact us

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Steve Dresser, CEO

"The man supermarket CEO's turn to" - BBC

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