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OpinionWoolies' lasting legacy
The new occupants of some Woolworths stores have breathed new life into the streets on which they’re located, but those which are still empty are likely to remain that way
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OpinionNo-design from the US
Travel, it is claimed, broadens the mind. This may be true, but a trip to the US tends to make you think how narrow the retail focus is in all but the biggest cities.
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Mostly Futile Intentions
£250,000 doesn’t sound like a lot of money for the MFI brand, but is it worth even that?
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OpinionLow prices alone won’t help Asda’s recovery
Spare a thought for Asda’s new chief executive Andy Clarke. Struggling along without either a trading director or an operations chief, on Tuesday he was put in the awkward position of both parent company Walmart revealing another fall in Asda’s comp sales and Kantar showing it had lost further market ...
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OpinionTap the potential of grey power
There is scope for some retailers to radically revise their assumptions and practices regarding employment of older workers.
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OpinionCo-operation’s what you need
Collaboration across our industry is resulting in some extraordinary outcomes, writes Mark Price
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OpinionFocus on food will be key to Asda’s recovery
Spare a thought for Asda’s new chief executive Andy Clarke.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How much information do we need to share with potential investors and City analysts?
How much information do we need to share with potential investors and City analysts?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Can we use security tags on products and still let customers buy them using our self checkouts?
Can we use security tags on products and still let customers buy them using our self checkouts?
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Number crunching
Does anyone understand how the retail sales measures manage to come up with completely different outcomes?
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OpinionIs the American Apparel dream over?
The vision of eccentric and often controversial American Apparel founder Dov Charney managed to woo UK shoppers and UK investors but this week it looks like the company may be on the brink of collapse.
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Scotch Mist
Across the UK, the overall retail picture isn’t that bad. But the further north you go, the worse it gets
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There goes the bride
Upsetting customers is one thing, but when they’re brides to be, it’s quite another. The Hut ought to be wary.
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OpinionValue's growing value
As the new breed of value retailers reach maturity, there’s no reason they should be restricted to in-town locations.
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OpinionAn authentic rant
In retail, the terms ‘authentic’, ‘heritage’, ‘tradition’ are generally used to cast a halo of nostalgic wellbeing over products and store interiors that might otherwise appear a trifle mundane.
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Government goes Green
Philip Green’s appointment as the government’s efficiency guru should strike fear into the corridors of power.
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OpinionConcrete evidence of retail’s worth
The UK should be a place “where starting an enterprise or creating a job - even just one job - is genuinely valued by society”. That was Vince Cable speaking a couple of months ago. So how much value should be attached to 22,000 new jobs?
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OpinionDealing with disaster
It’s how we learn from our mistakes and plan accordingly that defines us
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OpinionRetail outlook on the edge of a precipice
Rather like the summer weather, dark clouds have gathered over retail over the past fortnight.