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Analysis
The end of the cheque
Last month’s news that the system that processes cheques is to be abolished has put the date on when the 350-year-old payment method is due to end
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AnalysisChristos Angelides: Next’s product guru
Next’s product guru has been instrumental in breathing new life into the retail giant’s ranges and driving its second-half success.
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AnalysisHow the online revolution transformed retail in a decade
10 years ago Retail Week’s headlines reflected online and value retail being in their infancy. At the start of the next decade, Sara McCorquodale examines what the sector can learn from the last one
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AnalysisTesco 2.0: Good for international relations
For an international giant like Tesco the web is crucial for internal communication. Joanna Perry finds out how the grocer is making the most of it
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AnalysisRaising the screen on recruitment
Pre-screening recruits can cut risk in the long run by weeding out dishonest staff.
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AnalysisWhat it’s like to work at Marks & Spencer
The inside view from director of human resources Tanith Dodge
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AnalysisKeith Jones is diving in at the deep end at JJB Sports
The ex-DSGi man is diving in at the deep end at JJB Sports, arriving as chief executive after a calamitous year for the business. Lisa Berwin asks if he can get it back in shape.
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AnalysisNeed to know: Christmas Day trading
With retailers exploiting every opportunity to grab shopper spend this Christmas, just who is allowed to trade on the big day itself?
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AnalysisAsda head office staff take to the shopfloor at Christmas
Like many retailers, Asda’s head office staff are sent into stores to help with the Christmas rush. Sara McCorquodale finds out what they learn.
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AnalysisAsian markets beckon for crunch-hit fashion players
Slowed consumer spending in their recession-hit home markets has led the world’s largest fashion retailers to pursue Asia for growth. Retailers such as Inditex, H&M and Gap are now finding more fertile grounds for expansion in the region, where the effects of the economic downturn have been much less severe.
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Review of the year 2009
It’s not been any easy ride, yet for all but the weakest 2009 has been better than feared. From the final closure of high street stalwart Woolies to the demise of Borders and First Quench, Retail Week looks back at a year in which the future retail landscape has begun ...
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January
Source: John RyanStore of the Month:Waitrose, Nottingham. Bit of a cheat this as Waitrose actually opened its first “convenience” store, in Nottingham – at the end of December, but it was January, as near as dammit. At 5,800 sq ft, this compact store has all the departments you’d expect of ...
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March
Store of the Month: Tesco branched out in central Europe with My Liberec, a department-cum-food store that bore scant reference to its parent. Instead, shoppers in the northern Czech city of Liberec were presented with a two-floor, 75,000 sq ft departure, from the Tesco mittel-Europ norm and a format that ...
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April
Store of the Month: Ushering in the new month, Sir Philip Green finally took the Topshop fascia across the pond, opening a much-anticipated and much-delayed four-floor store on New York’s Broadway that referenced its Brit origins at every turn. The store design was unashamedly aimed at high glitz fashion types ...
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May
Store of the Month: Beleaguered camera retailer Jessops has been under pressure for the whole of this year, but this has not slowed its efforts to turn things around, with perhaps the most concrete evidence being its new store on London’s New Oxford Street. With everything from a ‘Training Academy’ ...
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June
Store of the Month:Monki, the idiosyncratic Swedish retailer that works by not using lifestyle graphics and not putting prices or directional signs in its stores, marked its arrival in the Danish capital Copenhagen with two store openings on the same day. Both featured the brightly coloured, internally illuminated pylons and ...
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July
Store of the Month: A quintessentially middle-English retailer, Lakeland reinvents itself with a store that takes kitchen and cookware and presents them as a series of lifestyle offers. This is a long, deep shop and yet in spite of the relatively high equipment, finding your way around is simple due ...
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August
Store of the Month:Primark opened a huge new store in Bristol on a site where House of Fraser and former department store group Bentalls both failed to make an impact. No such problem here – the retailer’s second largest store, at just under 100,000 sq ft, has been pulling shoppers ...