Opinion – Page 294
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Super Thursday
However well their businesses have been doing, there’s one common thread that unites all the retailers reporting results today.
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OpinionSwiss watch (and learn)
While demonstration labs will never replace real-life trials, they can open retailers’ minds and get their technology suppliers thinking.
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OpinionTime for new thinking on old stores
The rate of growth in store vacancy rates has slowed, but that’s little consolation to those towns where nearly a third of shops are empty.
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Selfridges steps out
The Shoe Galleries at Selfridges show what happens when store and product are in alignment
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Shooting stars
Retail’s talented rising stars certainly know how to party, as does Theo Paphitis
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OpinionThe great fresh food myth
Middle class prejudice against frozen food is based on ignorance, argues Malcolm Walker
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OpinionThe advantage of doing it yourself
According to conventional thinking, vertical integration is yesterday’s strategy. But there are exceptions. Some retailers have shunned the conventional wisdom and maintained their own factories
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OpinionControlling costs at every turn
Controlling costs in these uncertain times requires a Scrooge-like grasp on the purse strings.
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OpinionComet follows a new path
Kesa has been proving more popular of late, thanks in part to stakebuilding by activist investor Knight Vinke and Comet’s project to differentiate and broaden its appeal
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can we work with other stores nearby to reduce crime in our local area?
How can we work with other stores nearby to reduce crime in our local area?
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OpinionRetail surgery: How should we communicate with customers locally when there is an incident in one of our stores, for instance a flood or a serious crime takes place?
How should we communicate with customers locally when there is an incident in one of our stores, for instance a flood or a serious crime takes place?
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Lab's life
Dalton Philips talked about experimental labs so much this morning, he should have been wearing a white coat and goggles
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OpinionAspiration perspiration
Do shopping centres dedicated to aspirational brands work? The evidence suggests not.
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OpinionRefurbishment: what remains unsaid
For retailers who have managed to see their way through the last couple of years, now might be a good time to make the most of hungry shopfitters and ill-nourished commercial property agents in order to revamp their estates.
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Booze Britain
The Scottish government’s plans for a minimum price on alcohol are a useful contribution to the debate on alcohol
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OpinionTough times will sort men from the boys
There will doubtless be the usual gloomy predictions, but Christmas will be OK because Christmas always is.
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OpinionThe cost of convenience
Customers will weigh up the cost of delivery charges against the benefits, says Steve Robinson
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OpinionRetail’s modern-day Troubleshooter?
When the BBC showed Mary Queen of Shops as a modern-day Troubleshooter for retailing, this should at last have been a chance to show audiences what retailing is all about and how fascinating it is.