All Electricals articles – Page 155
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AnalysisConsumer behaviour: All in the mind
Research shows that women are more demanding when they shop and influence up to 80 per cent of purchases. Charlotte Hardie finds out how retailers can cash in by tapping into the female psyche.
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OpinionIt's time to regain your margin
I joked in a previous column that some of us might visit our shops in December, hear Wham’s Last Christmas and genuinely wonder whether it might be. I rather wish I hadn’t now.
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News
Ailing Irish retailers call on government for protection
Irish retailers have urged their government to take action to ease the mounting pressures on beleaguered companies suffering in the recession.
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News
BRC produces US product safety standard
Some of world’s biggest retailers will have to adhere to the British Retail Consortium's product safety standard following an agreement with North America's leading retail trade association.
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News
Most retailers report like-for-like Christmas sales growth
More than half (52 per cent) of retailers reported positive like-for-like sales over the Christmas period.
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News
Woolworths bought by Shop Direct Group
Woolworths will be relaunched as an online store after the brand was bought by Shop Direct Group owners the Barclay brothers.
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Analysis
Regent Street: Prince Regent
Regent Street has been at the forefront of retail innovation for years, but as the downturn bites how are its leading lights coping with the economic gloom? John Ryan takes a stroll to find out
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News
Jessops losses widen
Camera specialist Jessops has reported widening losses in its full-year results as the digital camera market showed a sharp slowdown.
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News
New year cheer for electricals sector as Sales spur spending
Electricals retailers are enjoying a surprise new year sales surge as consumers continue to clamour for January Sales bargains.
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New year cheer for electricals sector as Sales spur spending
Electricals retailers are enjoying a surprise new year sales surge as consumers continue to clamour for January Sales bargains.
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News
Falling confidence hits younger customers
Consumer confidence dropped again this month and is also beginning to hit younger consumers.
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News
Retail Trust raises over £1m
Retailers came out in force last night to lend their support to retail charity The Retail Trust and raise nearly 1.1m at its glitzy London ball.
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News
Retail sales plummet in early January, CBI figures show
Nearly two thirds of retailers experienced a fall in sales volumes in the first half of January, and February is expected to be just as tough.
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News
Comet presses suppliers to pay for shopfloor displays
Electricals retailer Comet has told suppliers they must pay up to 15,400 to have each of their product lines displayed on the shopfloor.
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UK in recession as ONS reports December retail sales value fall
The UK plunged into recession for the first time since the early 1990s, official figures confirmed this morning.
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News
Troubled retailers close more than two in five shops
Financially troubled retailers have been closing more than two in five stores as the economic gloom on the high street deepens.
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News
Fund set up to back retailers of the future
A consortium of retail entrepreneurs has united to create an investment fund to support fledgling UK retail businesses.
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Opinion
John Richards: Think it's bad? You've seen nothing yet
Plan for lower sales in 2009 and 2010 and you won’t suffer too many unpleasant shocks. The severity of the financial crunch and the excesses that led to it mean that the adjustment process must not only be painful but protracted.
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News
Circuit City stores close as business liquidated
Circuit City has become the US’s largest retail victim of the global downturn, leaving 34,000 staff jobless as all 567 stores close.
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Opinion
Electricals war is yet to be won
There’s little sign of a surge for electricals retailers this year.