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• Primark has bought an automated fulfilment facility in Sheffield ahead of its first home delivery service in Britain.
• The retailer previously resisted delivery because picking, packing and shipping costs threatened its low-price model.
• The move comes as Primark prepares to separate from Associated British Foods and pursue new sources of growth.

Primark built its name on cheap clothes and high-street stores, but one part of modern retail it deliberately stayed away from was delivering those bargains to customers’ doors. That is now changing.

The retailer is preparing to introduce home delivery in Great Britain for the first time, after years of arguing that the costs of picking, packing and shipping individual orders made a full online operation difficult to reconcile with its low-price proposition.