More property – Page 88
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Opinion
Will Westfield Stratford work?
It’s a tough time to open a megamall and the economic indicators are stacked against success, so has Westfield Stratford got what it takes?
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OpinionRe-evaluating the store
Five years ago, a typical non-food prime site retailer starting out and looking to reach its optimum market might have targeted as many as 200 sites to trade from.
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AnalysisRetail Week On The Road: Midlands
We visit Birmingham, Leicester, Derby, Market Harborough and Nottingham
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OpinionHelp our high street heroes
The visual headlines this month will stay with us as a nation for quite some time as cracks in society developed into chasms.
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AnalysisRetail Week On The Road: North East and Yorkshire
We visit Leeds, Bradford, Middlesbrough and Newcastle
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OpinionOpen for business
Watching the pockets of trouble break out across London and then England over the past few days has brought home to me the vulnerability of the retail sector in the face of mindless thuggery.
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OpinionRetailers’ spirit will not be crushed by riots
This week’s riots across the UK weren’t just an attack on our cities. They were an attack on retail. Retailers have been in the front line of sickening theft and violence on an industrial scale.
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AnalysisRetail Week On The Road: South East and East Anglia
We visit Norfolk, East Anglia, Kent and Essex
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Opinion
Retail and rioting
If retailers don’t get more protection from marauding gangs, who could blame them for quitting our inner cities?
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Opinion
On the Road
Retail Week’s Summer road trip is setting out to uncover retail’s hidden success stories around the UK
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AnalysisRetail Week On The Road: Wales and the Southwest
We visit Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Bristol.
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OpinionWho are these new shopping centres being built for?
I was struck this week by the juxtaposition between two stories in a Retail Week email update.
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AnalysisHigh hope for the high street?
With many of the UK’s high streets under the economic cosh, can local initiatives save the day? John Ryan reports from Maidstone
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AnalysisThe great space race
Supermarkets are opening up new stores at ever faster rates, but is there much space left in the crowded market and are there enough sales to support the growth? Rebecca Thomson reports
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OpinionProperty panic
The retail property industry is worried that they might be made the whipping boys in the Portas high street review
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AnalysisLining up an Olympic opportunity
With less than three months before opening, Rebecca Thomson visits Westfield Stratford as it prepares for the 2012 games to commence
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OpinionReaping what you sow
It’s no coincidence that a flurry of retailers have hit the wall in the past week