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NewsChristmas trading: It’ll be alright on the night
Fears of poor festive trading have been confounded and Christmas is all but in the bag, leading retailers say.
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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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GalleryDyson Bluewater
There is a sense currently that if it’s a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, then there will be a new pop-up store on the block and last week, Wednesday saw the opening by Dyson, the vacuum cleaner people, of a temporary store in Bluewater.
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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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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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Analysis
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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Analysis
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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Analysis
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 ...
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October
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 ...