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AnalysisDebenhams results: Bold strategy or desperate measures?
Debenhams has posted its biggest statutory loss on record and revealed plans to close 50 stores. Here are the City’s divided reactions to the results.
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OpinionRetail’s next tech tidal wave is closer than you think
It’s not just the high street that’s changing, it’s the entire retail landscape.
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AnalysisData: Empty stores by parliamentary constituency
The business rates burden borne by retailers will increase by £180m, from next April. As high streets face further pressure, find out here how many stores lie empty in your area.
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OpinionOpinion: Follow Lewis' lead and pressure MPs on rates
Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis was on the nail when he called this week for radical change to the business rates regime, which is holding back the retail industry’s success.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Will Amazon's 4-star store move the dial?
The ever-experimental Amazon has launched its latest foray into bricks and mortar. Last week, the etail titan unveiled Amazon 4-star in New York.
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AnalysisDebenhams' beauty hall is innovative but problematic
Debenhams unveiled its Beauty Hall of the Future in Watford earlier this week, showing off a new take on the traditional beauty department.
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AnalysisWhy do digital retailers bother with physical shops?
Digital leaders from Boden to Zalando are turning to bricks and mortar. John Ryan asks, why are they bothering?
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Next is pivoting in a digital world
Next is in the middle of one of its biggest changes in decades, transitioning to become a digitally led business amid changing consumer habits.
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OpinionWhy I’m certain department stores have a future
As he unveils his latest store, Debenhams’ chief executive explains why he’s confident in prospects despite tough conditions.
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AnalysisJack’s – Great British discounter or Brexit bargain store?
One hundred years after Jack Cohen founded Tesco on a pile it high, sell it cheap strategy, the grocer has gone back to its roots.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers can only hold their stomachs in so long
Beefcake actor Burt Reynolds – Hollywood’s biggest box office draw of the 1970s and early 1980s – died earlier this month.
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OpinionDividing opinion: The case for and against CVAs
If the last eight months are anything to go by, 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the CVA.
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OpinionOpinion: Primark and JD show golden rules hold good
Retail may be changing at byte speed, but two stellar successes demonstrated this week that some of the oldest rules in the book still apply.
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OpinionOpinion: Amazon should follow Coke into coffee shops
Whitbread’s surprise sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola for £3.9bn prompts the question of who else might have been in the race for a caffeine fix – or who perhaps should have been.
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AnalysisReserved, the fashion newcomer with big UK ambitions
A year ago, Polish fashion giant LPP opened Reserved on Oxford Street with great fanfare. But does it have what it takes to break Britain?
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AnalysisRetail Reimagined: Building the DIY store 2.0
In the latest instalment of our Retail Reimagined series, examining how traditional formats would look if they were redesigned today, Gemma Goldfingle explores the DIY store 2.0.
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AnalysisFirst look: John Lewis' rebranded Oxford Street store
John Lewis has unveiled a fresh look at its Oxford Street flagship, including a rebranding, greater emphasis on services and departmental overhauls.
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OpinionOpinion: Ashley’s not responsible for HoF supplier woes
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley is not always an easy person to sympathise with.
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OpinionAstronomic investment needed to fix retail black holes
There is still no substitute for store visits if you want to see reality rather than the ‘fake news’ emanating from the boardroom and the PR department.
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