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What Wickes learned over lockdown
Quickfire Q&A: Digital levels the playing field, and customers have a mission, not a shopping list, says CMO Gary Kibble.
by Adam Gale
Home improvement giant Wickes could have stayed open during the first lockdown in 2020 as an essential retailer, but decided that closing was the right thing to do. Overnight, it had to become a digital business, chief marketing and digital officer Gary Kibble says.
What were the operational challenges of going fully digital so quickly?
When the lockdown was announced, we closed our digital operation just for a day because we needed time to really understand how we were going to run this. There was a real war-room mentality for that 24-hour period.
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Parents should be told if teachers and community leaders have terror or race-hate convictions
Anti-radicalisation worker says parents need information to protect children from teachers and youth workers with record of extremism
3 April 2021 • 7:00pm
Protesters outside Batley Grammar School in Batley, West Yorkshire, where a teacher has been suspended for reportedly showing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed
Credit: Danny Lawson/PA
Parents have no idea if teachers and community leaders are “avowed dangerous terrorists” and must be given powers to ask about their past, a former anti-extremism worker in Batley has warned.
The former education officer in the town where protestors demanded the sacking of a teacher for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has called for parents to have the right to know if influential adults working with children hold extremist views.