Opinion – Page 175
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OpinionBlog: Tesco boss Philip Clarke on the grocer's Christmas performance
As seasonal as the sales, the flurry of Christmas trading statements is well underway and we have reported our sales update this morning.
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OpinionComment: Media hires will keep retailers relevant
The retail and media sectors have always been close cousins. But, as the digital revolution continues to disrupt all aspects of the media space, the role of retailers has to change if they are to remain relevant.
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OpinionComment: Next makes money in the middle market
Next was very much in fashion with shoppers over Christmas, when it posted better than expected sales.
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OpinionComment: Retail trends that are not just for Christmas
The concentrated nature of the festive trading period amplifies consumer trends like no other and there are already telling lessons to be drawn for the year ahead.
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OpinionComment: Mothercare lost out to rivals after Christmas gamble
Mothercare has issued a shock profit warning which has seen its share price plummet in this morning’s trading.
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OpinionBlog: Mobile traffic rockets at Christmas
Mobile traffic has been growing at a reliably fast pace for the past few years, but during Christmas it rocketed.
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OpinionBlog: Property industry should take a risk on new breed of online expansionists
Since the advent of online retailing, there has been no shortage of analysts and observers ready to predict that pure players would, literally, set up shop. Yet this forecast has proven largely incorrect so far.
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OpinionComment: What happened to Debenhams at Christmas?
What could have been done to make Christmas happen at the department store retailer?
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OpinionComment: Retail lessons from Next's Christmas update
A standout Christmas performance from Next puts the retailer in line to rival Marks & Spencer’s profitability this year.
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OpinionComment: A new year brings new opportunities for retailers
The New Year is often portrayed as an opportunity for a fresh start. As such, rather than focusing on the retail failures of 2013, why not take a look at the successes of some of last year’s more innovative retailers instead?
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OpinionComment: The Christmas retail story will be margin, not just sales
Christmas updates from Debenhams, House of Fraser and John Lewis told wildly differing stories about seasonal trading.
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OpinionComment: How John Lewis and House of Fraser outperformed Debenhams
There’s something about department stores and Christmas. Maybe it’s the influence of the movie Miracle on 34th Street but the two somehow seem to go together.
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OpinionComment: Time for a store design change in 2014
Has the time come to call time on ‘industrial’-look store interiors and what might be next?
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OpinionBlog: Why is Carrefour boss Georges Plassat backing the hypermarket model?
Given the scale of change taking place across the retail industry, it’s hardly surprising that both retailers and landlords are pretty much obsessed with understanding all the new channels available to them and their customers.
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OpinionComment: What the market traders can teach retailers
Covent Garden’s Apple Market stepped into the 21st Century last week as traders accepted digital payments from shoppers for the very first time.
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OpinionComment: Christmas has come early for Dixons this year
Along with all the year-end festivities going on this week, it seems like UK retail has something else to celebrate: the complete turnaround of Dixons.
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OpinionComment: Vince Cable's zero-hours contracts decision should be welcomed
Vince Cable’s announcement to rule out a complete ban on zero-hours contracts comes as a welcome decision for employers and employees.
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OpinionBlog: Late Christmas shopper rush makes physical stores all the more vital
Online plays an undeniably huge role in retail, and especially so during the golden quarter. Yet it is the performance of retailers’ physical stores in the next few days that will prove make or break for some store groups this Christmas as shoppers leave it later than ever.
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OpinionComment: Seeking the value in retail shares
My financial adviser recently asked me what retail stocks he should buy.
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OpinionComment: We need to act to protect young lives
When I heard the words ‘Tesco’ and ‘pornography’ mentioned at the start of an important House of Lords debate, you can imagine my ears did a bit of up-pricking.