Opinion – Page 127
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OpinionComment: Why external retail labs are better than internal innovation
Big businesses often fail to innovate internally so forward-thinking retailers should look to external incubators for fresh ideas.
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Comment: Are Spain’s big retailers opening to private investment?
Top Spanish retailer Mercadona has no external investors – unlike compatriots El Corte Inglés and Inditex. Will it always be so?
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OpinionMarks & Spencer succession: Who should follow Marc Bolland in the top role?
The departure of M&S general merchandise boss John Dixon set hares running about succession at retail’s closest equivalent to royalty.
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OpinionAs the economy improves, retailers need to make hay while the sun shines
In a world where one of the largest economies suffers a massive stock market plunge, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d woken up in 2008.
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OpinionComment: How will Facebook’s shoppable brand pages impact the etail channel?
Facebook is taking another crack at becoming an ecommerce contender after listening to brands that made a first foray into Facebook Stores.
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OpinionComment: Red Sale signs no longer rouse the right reaction
The plethora of red signage up and down the high street means that Sales have become more or less an irrelevance to shoppers.
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OpinionRFID blog: What makes RFID beneficial to your business?
For any technology, such as RFID, to replace barcodes as the data capture method in the retail industry, there has to be a clear-cut relative advantage.
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OpinionWhy general merchandise boss John Dixon has left Marks & Spencer
The unexpected departure of M&S’s general merchandise boss has reignited speculation about machinations in the bellwether’s boardroom.
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OpinionBlog: Buying in to Amazon Prime Day
Promising ‘more deals than Black Friday’, Amazon’s Prime Day served to reward its loyal customers and raise the profile of the service.
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OpinionNick Bubb's verdict: Why Sports Direct missed its targets
What is the story behind Sports Direct’s admission today that “planned acquisitions in full-year 2015 did not fully materialise”?
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OpinionComment: CMA reminds grocers not to return to their promotion-heavy past
The Competition and Markets Authority has responded to a super-complaint with little more than a telling off, says Verdict’s Andrew Stevens.
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OpinionComment: Retail needs more academies to let its talent blossom
The Fashion Retail Academy has celebrated its 10th anniversary, but the industry needs more colleges to build its talent pool.
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OpinionComment: The big grocers need to discover new purpose
The popular consensus is that the grocery market will return to ‘normal’, but there is debate over how long it will take.
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OpinionComment: Retailers should think more like digital start-ups
Multichannel retail allows shoppers to be more demanding than ever. Successful retailers are answering this by embracing digital opportunities.
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OpinionComment: The Government must rethink Sunday trading proposals
The regulation of Sunday trading hours divides retail employers and has been the subject of many debates over the last four decades.
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OpinionComment: Does Apple Pay make commercial sense for retailers?
There is nothing new about contactless payment, but what will the launch of Apple Pay in the UK mean for British retailers?
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OpinionComment: Was Uniqlo right to close its flagship during its refurb?
Closing a store for refurbishment is a tough call to make and Uniqlo on Oxford Street may have to run fast to make up lost ground.
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OpinionComment: Living wage means retailers must create value from their people
Analysis of the Budget’s ‘living wage’, which will rise to over £9 by 2020, has focused on the cost to retailers.
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OpinionBlog: Octer app bids to change the way people shop online
Barely a week passes without a new app launching that purports to change the future of retail, but eventually one of these will stick so it’s worth keeping an eye on them.