All articles by Chris Brook-Carter – Page 7
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Opinion
Comment: Amazon drones are not just pie in the sky
An inspired vision of the future for online delivery or an extravagant PR stunt designed to coincide with Cyber Monday?
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Comment: Argos offers a vision of a digital future
It is half a decade since the news broke that Woolworths was collapsing, a watershed event in the development of UK retail that heralded a period of unprecedented change on the high street.
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Blog: Freeze business rates, George
With the Autumn Statement looming, the hope must be that at last George Osborne will concede a business rates freeze.
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Comment: Co-op review must marry governance and values
The latest chapter in the crisis at the Co-operative Group threatens to overwhelm the mutually owned business and is indicative of how troubles in its financial arm are having profound consequences for the future of the Co-op’s operations, notably retail.
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Comment: China’s freer market will put strain on supply
The eyes of the financial world have been on China this week as the closed-door meeting held by its top leaders, a gathering also known as the Third Plenum, debated the future of the country’s economic progress.
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Comment: Marks & Spencer can learn from Primark’s success
Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland this week found himself unveiling a drop in first-half pre-tax profits on the same day as high street rival Primark announced rocketing full-year results.
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Comment: Forget omnichannel, isn’t it all just retail?
Omnichannel, multichannel or just plain retail. Does the term by which the industry refers to the proliferation of ways it can interact and transact with its customers matter?
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Comment: British etail leaders remain world’s best
Charged with developing and future-proofing the sales channel broadly regarded as having the biggest potential for growth in British retail, these individuals must be prepared to be leaders of innovation.
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Comment: Apple’s issue with the HMV app is no surprise
The spat that broke out between HMV and Apple over the iOS version of the Hilco-owned retailer’s music app has inevitably been positioned as a clash between old and new.
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Comment: How Amazon changed UK retail in 15 years
Only a handful of retailers can genuinely claim to have turned the industry upside down. But surely Amazon, which this week celebrated its 15th anniversary of operating in the UK, can legitimately be said to have done just that.
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Opinion
Comment: Global retail expansion needs a localised touch
Two leading figures in global grocery used this week’s World Retail Congress to declare that the “age of imperialism” in international retailing was over.
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Comment: Aldi’s broad appeal will fuel more growth
It would be all too easy for rivals to dismiss the presence of lobster tails on Aldi’s burgeoning product list as a PR gimmick.
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Comment: Time to recognise big retail’s role in economic recovery
Ed Miliband’s ideas to tackle the burden of business rates on small businesses should be welcomed and will help stimulate the more detailed debate that’s needed if a solution to this punitive cost on retail is to be found.
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Comment: Tesco's Hudl taps into new routes to market
Of all the technology-driven announcements from retailers in the past fortnight, the unveiling of Tesco’s own-brand tablet Hudl is the most indicative of the changing face of UK retail.
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Comment: Technology will drive success during economic upturn
The volume of financial updates from retailers in the last few weeks was a prime opportunity to take the temperature of the sector as it begins to prepare for the Christmas countdown.
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Comment: London Fashion Week struts its stuff for the economy
From One Direction to Samantha Cameron, London Fashion Week may attract its fair share of celebrities among the 5,000 visitors that come to see what the best of the British fashion industry has to offer.
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Comment: Relieving rates burden would be real retail fix
Bill Grimsey and Mary Portas may have more in common than either would care to admit. Both have passionately articulated the vast challenge that faces high street retailers.
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Comment: Are Sales practices destroying trust in retail?
OFT blasts carpet and furniture stores for misleading price cuts’, read the website of one national newspaper last Friday, before then reporting ‘Retail chiefs blast OFT over carpet and furniture price-fixing probe’.
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Blog: Can the Co-op log into online profitably?
The Co-operative is to end years of deliberation by finally launching trials of online grocery retailing.
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Opinion
Comment: M&S campaign has power to persuade womenswear customer to return
Helen Mirren, Tracey Emin, Ellie Goulding, Laura Mvula, Katie Piper and Karen Elson - it’s a roll call of talent you’d expect to see adorn a cover of Vanity Fair.