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AnalysisData: Week four of trading post-lockdown – the data you need to know
Footfall more than doubled week on week in the fourth week of trading since lockdown restrictions were lifted, buoyed by the reopening of the hospitality sector.
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Opinion
Opinion: Summer statement cements retail’s place as UK’s invisible industry
There was hope, rather than expectation, that chancellor Rishi Sunak would offer retailers a lifeline this week.
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Analysis
Data: Week three of trading post-lockdown – the data you need to know
With all retail stores across the UK permitted to reopen from June 29, footfall improved week on week in almost all shopping destinations in week three.
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Opinion
Opinion: As jobs are decimated, Johnson must help ‘build, build, build’ retail
There’s no getting away from it – this has been a bruising week for retail.
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Analysis
Analysis: As Intu collapses, is the shopping mall dead?
As shopping centre giant Intu plunges into administration, Retail Week asks whether the mall is dead?
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Analysis
Data: Week two of store trading post-lockdown – the data you need to know
Footfall across UK retail destinations continued to climb in week two as more non-essential retail stores reopen, with Wales seeing a particular surge as lockdown regulations ease.
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Analysis
Go Outdoors rent day pre-pack – is JD Sports right to shaft landlords?
JD Sports has become embroiled in controversy after putting subsidiary Go Outdoors into administration before promptly buying it back and seeking to secure better rent deals. But should JD be cheered or jeered?
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Opinion
Opinion: Raise a glass – responsibly – to lockdown relaxation
As retail reopened last week, there was no getting away from the fact that there was a gaping hole at the heart of town centres and other shopping destinations: the absence of almost any form of recreation.
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Analysis
Coronavirus: Grimsey’s prescription for reinvigorating high streets post-crisis
High street advocate and campaigner Bill Grimsey has made new recommendations on how to revive town centres through a focus on localisation and new purpose.
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Analysis
John Lewis, Superdry, Lush and Waterstones on trading in retail’s new normal
After three months of shuttered doors due to the coronavirus, English non-essential retail reopened to the public on Monday. Retail Week analyses the lessons to be learnt from the first days of trading.
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Opinion
Opinion: Reopenings reveal a flight to value that retail must embrace
It has become something of a recurring theme during this pandemic, but retailers and their frontline workers did themselves proud again on Monday.
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Opinion
Opinion: Reimagining retail for post-pandemic world
Change has been forced upon us – both good and bad – and we have yet to determine how much will stick. Understanding which consumer trends will prevail is critical to future investment decision-making and building competitive advantage.
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Opinion
Opinion: How social distancing can be ‘baked in’ to new store designs
One-way systems, hygiene stations, duct tape on the floor. All of this adds up to just one thing – retailers doing what they can to make their stores safer places for those choosing to frequent them.
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Opinion
Opinion: Time for a reset of retail rent and rates
In 2015 I closed the last of my stores due to spiralling property costs. There’s not a day since that I haven’t missed them.
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Opinion
The Secret Landlord: Retailers want to have their cake and eat it too
After years in the driving seat, the tide has turned on landlords and retailers have the whip hand. However, occupiers must remember that they need landlords too.
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Opinion
Opinion: Monsoon and Quiz pre-packs punish staff for management mistakes
The pre-pack administrations unveiled by Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz this morning were certainly portrayed as good news for the businesses and their respective workforces.
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Opinion
The Secret Retailer: Landlords are living in cloud cuckoo land
The relationship between retailers and landlords is at a critical point.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How retailers can adopt a smart store reopening strategy
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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Opinion
Opinion: Changes to Sunday trading won’t kickstart a retail recovery
Few issues divide the retail industry and fire up an emotional response like Sunday trading.
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Opinion
Opinion: Via Outlets boss on how to cater for socially distant shopping
As Covid-19 spread across Europe and was declared a global pandemic, Via Outlets was ordered to close eight of its 11 premium fashion outlet centres spread across nine different European countries – specifically those in Central Europe and Iberia.
