Opinion – Page 168
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OpinionComment: The myths and reality of public versus private ownership
Shareholders can often be the thorn in the side of a visionary retail chief executive, but private ownership is not always the better option.
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OpinionComment: Oracle Retail Week Awards - New rules, old values
The rules rules of retail may have changed, but the winners of this year’s Oracle Retail Week Awards have adapted to them and thrived.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can vouchers link the digital and physical worlds of shopping?
Vouchers have long been accepted as a mechanism for generating sales, recognising loyalty and attracting new customers.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can retailers optimise time spent on staff training programmes?
Retailers don’t have a usual nine-to-five working day, so finding the time to organise effective training programmes for staff and management can be difficult.
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OpinionComment: Politics over profits at the Co-op
The Co-op may not be listed but the row that erupted over executive pay and the subsequent resignation of chief executive Euan Sutherland will have resonated in the City.
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OpinionComment: The Co-op's problems are significant but not insurmountable
Yet more controversy surrounded the Co-operative Group today with news emerging the society has lost another chief executive.
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OpinionComment: The M&S lingerie and beauty shops are just the tip of the iceberg
The great majority of retailers have the chance to hive off elements of their offers and to create something new, but why don’t they do it?
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OpinionBlog: Fashion retailers need to adjust to the digital evolution
Logistics teams across the industry face a growing challenge of keeping up with the explosion of technology in the world of fashion retailing.
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OpinionComment: Technology drives ever-increasing pace of change
With 30,000 people in attendance, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference in New York is one of the biggest events in the retail calendar.
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Comment: Retailers can be trailblazers when it comes to apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are a personal issue for me. I started as a craft engineering apprentice in 1958 with Howard & Bullough in Accrington.
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OpinionNick Bubb's verdict: John Lewis Partnership - could do better?
If the John Lewis Partnership was being given an end-of-term school report, would the headmaster give it 10 out of 10?
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OpinionComment: New thinking on business rates
British Retail Consortium director-general Helen Dickinson on the BRC’s suggestions for the Chancellor’s budget
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OpinionComment: Why retailers don't need to worry about Bitcoin
It’s coming. Soon the Bitcoin economy will exceed the value of a smaller real world currency and within a decade the BitCoin economy may exceed that of the British pound. At least that’s what the proponents would like us to believe.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can retailers design for Generation Z shoppers with short attention spans?
How can retailers design for Generation Z shoppers who are in a constant state of partial attention?
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I measure the return on investment of staff training?
Budgets are on the up and confidence is returning after a difficult few years in the retail sector. But it’s still not easy, and if managers are to secure increased training budgets they will have to demonstrate perceptible value.
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OpinionBlog: Retailers compete in the personalisation half-pipe
With the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games due to start this Friday, over 50 UK retailers have been competing in the final event of our retail omni-lympics – the personalisation half-pipe - which judges their ability to cater to all customers in an engaging way.
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OpinionComment: The poorer in society don’t deserve a poor retail deal
It is time to stop unfairly marginalising lower-income consumers, says BrightHouse chief executive Leo McKee.
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OpinionComment: Some of the retail IPO valuations are beyond belief
Barracuda Search co-founder and joint managing director Jamie Zuppinger is staggered by the valuations of recent retail IPOs
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OpinionComment: How will technology change the face of the physical shop?
In the dawn of the ‘internet of everything’, the question on everyone’s lips is how will the technology, which is changing our world every day, impact the world of retail?
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OpinionComment: Embrace start-ups to encourage innovation in retail
JLab, the technology hub John Lewis launched this week, is the latest example of a retailer seeking to embrace the UK’s start-up community.