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Graham Soult
Graham Soult runs retail consultancy CannyInsights.com
Opinion‘High streets need grassroots solutions – not a Royal Commission to tell us what we already know’
John Lewis Partnership chair Dame Sharon White has called for a Royal Commission on high streets, but town centre solutions must be locally inspired and driven – and there is plenty of good practice to share, argues expert Graham Soult
OpinionOpinion: How can modern department stores thrive?
Independent department stores have been part of Britain’s retail landscape for generations, but now face more challenges than ever to not just survive, but thrive.
DataData: Top 100 most influential UK retail accounts on Twitter
An algorithm-generated list of the UK’s most influential retail Twitter accounts, compiled by Lissted and analysed by Graham Soult.
OpinionComment: Retailers’ stores must offer an innovative experience to customers
As online retail become increasingly popular retailers must provide an in-store offer that can’t be experienced on a computer or smartphone.
OpinionComment: Now is the time to futureproof our retail jewels
There’s clearly a consumer appetite for after-hours markets, can retailers really afford to ignore our changing shopping habits?
OpinionWoolworths collapse 5th Anniversary: My tour of Woolworths' old stores
My ongoing UK tour – photographing ex-Woolworths stores, and tracking what they’ve become – gives an intriguing snapshot of how our retail centres are changing.
OpinionComment: What the old Woolworths stores tell us about retail today
Anyone familiar with my tweets or blog will know that I have a not-so-secret retail predilection: Woolworths.
OpinionComment: Trinity Square shopping centre – the future of our high street?
While the eyes of the retail world were on Whiteley in Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, another new shopping centre was opening 300 miles north.