More Christmas continued – Page 38
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OpinionTesco likely to stay on buy lists
Despite some gloomy portents before Christmas and some lacklustre trading weeks in the run-up to the big event, the festive season lived up to its name for many store groups.
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AnalysisHow John Lewis won the festive retail battle
By investing cleverly in product, price and customer service the John Lewis Partnership has emerged the Christmas winner.
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Opinion
Seven lessons from a blockbuster Christmas
It was clearly a stormingly good Christmas for the sector, in most cases more than making up for last year’s losses.
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Analysis
Festive sales held up but expect a bleak first quarter
The first sets of Christmas trading results have started to trickle in this week and by all accounts Christmas 2009 is unlikely to have been the disaster that everybody was expecting.
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OpinionA taxing problem that won’t go away in 2010
Whoever is in government needs to be careful the recovery isn’t stifled by taxing spending further
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OpinionThe next phase in digital shopping
The vision of a seamless cross-channel experience remains firmly on the board agenda
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OpinionChristmas market anybody?
Only three days until the big day and one of the things that many towns and cities have been enjoying is a slice of Continental Christmas Market fayre. Something of the kind can be seen in Liverpool at the moment, which has its streets filled with wooden chalet-style huts from which grateful shoppers are expected to stop and buy. Except that they’re rubbish.
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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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OpinionResourceful retailers made the best of 2009
Calm isn’t a word you’d usually use about retailers the week before Christmas. But with the big day just a week away, there seems a reassuring absence of panic among the UK’s leading retailers.
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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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OpinionSanta and his enterprising sleigh
Preparing for the two most important trading weeks of the year and ensuring you reach expectations.
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AnalysisInside the box: Christmas adverts
A couple of retailers stand out for their originality in this year’s crop of festive ads, but too many of them lack impact, Saatchi & Saatchi’s Richard Huntington tells Joanna Perry.
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GalleryWinter window wonderland
With less than four shopping weeks to Christmas, the stores on Oxford Street should be a riot of festive fun. John Ryan walks the West End with Mary Portas to get her take on the displays.
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OpinionIPO hopes hang on Christmas
The Christmas selling season got off to its now traditional start this week: Debenhams held a Sale.
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AnalysisNeed to know: Christmas savings
Tesco and Asda have both claimed they will help customers save millions of pounds this Christmas with a flurry of price cuts. Do the figures add up?
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AnalysisThe Boxing Day challenge
With Boxing Day falling on a Saturday more retailers will open that day – many going straight into Sale. Liz Morrell finds out how they can ensure their stores are ready and they have staff support.
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AnalysisTesco is going all out this Christmas
No retailer is safe this Christmas as Tesco goes all out to grab market share with new products and expanded ranges. Retail and logistics chief David Potts outlines its plans to Jennifer Creevy.
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OpinionDitch the gimmicks this Christmas
This Christmas shoppers will prefer true cost savings to promotional extras, says Andy Clarke
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AnalysisChristmas spending
Retail’s traditional golden quarter is under way and store chiefs’ attention is pretty much devoted to achieving Christmas sales success. But will shoppers spend?
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DataICM Poll: Royal Mail strike
In an exclusive poll for Retail Week, ICM Research interviewed a random selection of 2,050 adults aged 18 and over between October 23 and 25, 2009 about the impact of the postal strike.