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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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Opinion: The time is ripe for a new breed of retail entrepreneurs
As the great retail shake-out continues, hastened rather than precipitated by the Coronavirus lockdown, so we are seeing thousands lose their jobs. Many skilled retailers – with experience of head office as well as the shop floor – are currently surplus to requirement. Will they be lost forever? I hope ...
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Dispatch: 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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Move of the Week: New Sainsbury’s boss Roberts sets out his stall
Quick decision making is a business necessity in the current climate as retailers respond to the evolving coronavirus crisis. New Sainsbury’s boss Simon Roberts has certainly wasted no time in shaking up his top team , marking his first day in the job with a duo of significant promotions.
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Opinion: Walmart is right – head offices must be an asset, not a burden
Retailers the world over have already had to make some huge strategic calls in their short-term responses to the coronavirus crisis.
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Opinion: Carrefour must learn from the past to avoid another bout of travel sickness
Carrefour’s acquisition of 224 stores in Taiwan runs counter to recent strategic retreats from international markets of many once-global food retailers. International expansion remains a viable route to growth for food retailers, but only if the lessons of the past can be learned.
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Opinion: A golden age of retail localisation beckons
Along with the weekly big shop, the coronavirus pandemic has heralded a resurgence of another once feared-to-be-endangered species – the local shop.
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Furlough scheme update: what it means for retail
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled some key changes to the furlough scheme on Friday, including bringing back workers part-time. Esther Smith, partner at law firm TLT, dissects how the updated scheme will impact retail
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Opinion: 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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Opinion: Covid-19 has exposed retail’s digital dawdlers
It would be no overstatement to suggest that the Covid-19 emergency has prompted one of the most seismic shifts in consumer behaviour in the last 100 years.
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Opinion: Forget the past – the months ahead will define retailers’ futures
There is a strange juxtaposition to be juggled in the minds of retail leaders as they prepare for a June 15 reopening.
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Opinion: On June 15, retailers need to remind shoppers of what they’ve missed
Some reassuring news accompanied Marks Spencer’s results last week – the rate of coronavirus infection among its staff was no worse than among the general population.
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Opinion: Will new direct-to-consumer wave outlast pandemic?
As the health emergency forced the world into lockdown, businesses adapted as fast as they could to cater for cooped-up customers and create alternative revenue streams.
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Opinion: Flexibility will be key in post-pandemic jobs market
Worries about job security will, I’m sure, be dominating the thoughts of many people working in retail right now.
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Opinion: No-deal Brexit would be a greater challenge for grocers than coronavirus
UK grocers and the food supply chain have stood tall and fed the nation during the coronavirus pandemic, but a no-deal Brexit in January could be a crisis too far.
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Dispatch: 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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Opinion: JC Penney is a cautionary tale of how not to run a retailer
JC Penney has been a staple of the US retail landscape for as long as most Americans can remember.
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Opinion: Now is the time for retailers to get to grips with data
Following the recently announced changes to the lockdown, retailers are busy preparing for a new normal.
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Dispatch: Is Italian retail ready to emerge from lockdown?
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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Opinion: Next phase of Covid-19 crisis will present even tougher challenges
We are now into week 10 of lockdown and, after the government published its recovery strategy , it’s starting to feel like we’re perhaps coming to the end of the beginning of this crisis.
