Opinion – Page 290
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John Lewis to relaunch website
John Lewis is to use a single commerce platform to power a new website and manage customer interaction across all channels to drive sales and customer loyalty.
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Tommy Hilfiger automates invoicing to improve trading efficiency
Tommy Hilfiger plans to reduce cost and error in processing invoices and speed up payments through automating its invoice system.
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Debenhams new TV channel brings the retailer to life
Launched this week, Debenhams’ new TV channel brings the retailer to life. Although video is not a new idea in the fashion sector, Debenhams TV has launched with a variety of formats that will appeal to the department store group’s different consumers.
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OpinionDon’t underestimate the web’s impact
Invariably discussions about online retailing now refer to its ‘maturity’. While online sales growth mirrors the volatility of retail sales generally and exceptional growth rates are history, growth remains and will remain significantly above average.
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OpinionRetail can innovate in social media
More UK retailers should explore and exploit the social network, says Martha Lane Fox
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OpinionStores’ future hinges on multichannel success
You know the retail world is changing when Sir Stuart Rose stands on a podium and starts talking about Twitter and Facebook. Yet there he was at this week’s World Retail Congress (WRC) in Berlin sharing the stage with a man from Google.
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OpinionToo soon to see Best Buy’s impact
Aside from Next, the big update next week will come from Carphone Warehouse which posts interim results on Friday.
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OpinionBuild it, but will they come?
Looking back on the last 10 years of Retail Week Awards we see the very best centres that hit the headlines for all the right reasons. All demanded the unprecedented vision and conviction of a few; each believing in a new generation of regional or city centre malls that would ...
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OpinionIt’s all about quality
Rather like the BCSC and MAPIC events we preview in this special supplement, celebrating the best retail environments is at the heart of what Retail Week is about.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Can you explain the legal wrangle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora over online search terms, and what are the wider implications for retailers?
Can you explain the legal wrangle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora over online search terms, and what are the wider implications for retailers?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Online Christmas Sales continue to start earlier and earlier. Is it best to launch my Sale on Christmas Day or should I do it before?
Online Christmas Sales continue to start earlier and earlier. Is it best to launch my Sale on Christmas Day or should I do it before?
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OpinionFunding is out there, but only for the best deals
Funding is out there for deals involving large retailers with dominant market positions, but is still harder to come by for smaller deals and distressed situations, the World Retail Congress heard this morning.
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O2 Ireland wins award for digital in-store signage
O2 Ireland has won an award for its digital in-store signage that gives the mobile phone retailer greater control over customers’ in-store experience.
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Sale frenzy crashes Topshop and Topman sites
The weight of visitors visiting the Topshop and Topman sites after the launch of the retailer’s mid-season sale crashed them yesterday, leaving consumers frustrated.
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Game drives footfall through Xbox location-based app
Game is driving footfall through a mobile phone app, based on a Xbox game, that involves checking in at locations close to stores to win points that customers can redeem when they buy the game.
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SPONSOR POST: What Retailers Need to Know about FaceBing
So the great Microsoft empire has partnered up with “Zuck” to set all of the SEO specialists atwitter with speculations of what this means for Google and the future of SEO. But if you are a retailer, you probably are just wondering how this will affect you.
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OpinionTime for independents day
With a little help, independents could reinvigorate our dull town centres, says Simon Burke
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OpinionA good result, but Swann can do better
WHSmith should be awarded nine out of 10 for margin management and cost control: the alchemy of generating a profits increase in another year of like-for-like sales declines.