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OpinionOpinion: How social distancing can be ‘baked in’ to new store designs
One-way systems, hygiene stations, duct tape on the floor. All of this adds up to just one thing – retailers doing what they can to make their stores safer places for those choosing to frequent them.
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OpinionOpinion: Time for a reset of retail rent and rates
In 2015 I closed the last of my stores due to spiralling property costs. There’s not a day since that I haven’t missed them.
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OpinionThe Secret Landlord: Retailers want to have their cake and eat it too
After years in the driving seat, the tide has turned on landlords and retailers have the whip hand. However, occupiers must remember that they need landlords too.
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OpinionOpinion: Monsoon and Quiz pre-packs punish staff for management mistakes
The pre-pack administrations unveiled by Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz this morning were certainly portrayed as good news for the businesses and their respective workforces.
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OpinionThe Secret Retailer: Landlords are living in cloud cuckoo land
The relationship between retailers and landlords is at a critical point.
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OpinionDispatch: How retailers can adopt a smart store reopening strategy
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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OpinionOpinion: Changes to Sunday trading won’t kickstart a retail recovery
Few issues divide the retail industry and fire up an emotional response like Sunday trading.
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OpinionOpinion: Via Outlets boss on how to cater for socially distant shopping
As Covid-19 spread across Europe and was declared a global pandemic, Via Outlets was ordered to close eight of its 11 premium fashion outlet centres spread across nine different European countries – specifically those in Central Europe and Iberia.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Will coronavirus spell the end of the retail head office?
With most offices closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, working from home has become the norm for many. Retail Week analyses whether the pandemic will finish off the traditional retail head office.
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OpinionDispatch: How UAE’s Majid Al Futtaim is adapting to Covid-19
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts who provide insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How WHSmith is preparing for travel retail to take off again
The world’s travel plans have gone awry during the coronavirus pandemic, depriving WHSmith of shoppers in its travel stores, but boss Carl Cowling is confident he can pilot the retailer to a safe landing.
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AnalysisNeed to know: What the government’s Covid-19 recovery plan means for retail
Following Boris Johnson’s address to the nation last night, the government has today published guidance on how the UK might move out of lockdown assuming the pandemic is kept under control.
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AnalysisDispatch: Six of the best global innovations sparked by coronavirus
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Can Next become a force to be reckoned with in beauty retail?
Hours after Debenhams confirmed that it would exit its five store across Hammerson-owned shopping centres, Next unveiled details of an unikely swoop.
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AnalysisCoronavirus: Next’s Lord Wolfson on cash, customers and trading safely
As fashion bellwether Next reports a “faster and steeper” fall in sales in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak than expected, how is the retailer adapting to tough conditions afflicting the whole industry?
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OpinionOpinion: ‘Business as usual’ will be anything but as lockdown measures ease
Travel forward in time – a few weeks, a few months, into the new year? – and imagine how retail might operate when, like moles blinking in the sun, consumers can emerge and go shopping in person again.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How coronavirus will change retail rents forever
With all non-essential retail stores shut, struggling landlords have found retail occupants unwilling or unable to pay quarterly rents. Will the coronavirus lockdown change retail rents forever?
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OpinionOpinion: John Lewis results show stores urgently need new purpose
There was a striking line in the John Lewis Partnership’s results that threw into relief a question that taxes many retailers, not just the group’s new chair Dame Sharon White – what role does the store play as online continues to transform the industry?
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OpinionOpinion: Hammerson’s issues are symptomatic of a broken property market
Hammerson’s latest set of financial results are symptomatic of the wider issues plaguing the UK retail property market and the institutional landlord is unlikely to be the only one feeling the effects.
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OpinionOpinion: Time is now for Johnson and Javid to back retail on rates reform
If the message to prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor Sajid Javid on business rates wasn’t already clear, it certainly is now.