Opinion – Page 299
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A humbling experience?
Ocado may have got its float away - just - but the whole process has been an embarassment to its founders.
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OpinionSilly Season
Listing the Milton Keynes shopping centre is a victory for pressure groups over the public at large.
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Stars of the future
The judging day for Retail Week’s Rising Star Awards showed that the future of retail is in safe hands
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OpinionIt’s what you’re unaware of that matters
Imagine a shop full of people and you want them to get a move on in order that more can come in so that you can keep the tills ringing. In a non-supermarket environment this might sound tricky, but there is help at hand.
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OpinionRetail M&A fears have become reality
Evidence suggests that the level of M&A activity in the sector has already slowed and we believe that it (and private equity investment, in particular) is likely to be more muted in the remainder of the year as what was previously feared has now become reality.
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OpinionReputation really is everything
Nick Samuel and Sir Terry Leahy show why doing things the right way is best, says Neil Gillis
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OpinionTough times lie ahead but retail looks resilient
An early exit from the World Cup and weather that was more suited to the beach than the shopping mall didn’t augur well for a bumper June in the shops. Yet this week’s BRC sales figures, backed up by anecdotal evidence from leading retailers, suggest a steady recovery is continuing.
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OpinionNo cause to downgrade retail
More than half-way through 2010, many store chiefs’ comments remain wary to the point of downbeat. While the gloomy noises will hardly spark a sector upgrade, the prospects for a further downgrade don’t look any greater.
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OpinionRetail surgery: The data we receive from suppliers is often incorrect. Is this an industry-wide problem or do we need to push our suppliers much harder on this?
The data we receive from suppliers is often incorrect. Is this an industry-wide problem or do we need to push our suppliers much harder on this?
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OpinionRetail surgery: We are interested in the advances in mobile commerce but don’t know which technologies will take off. Where should we start?
We are interested in the advances in mobile commerce but don’t know which technologies will take off. Where should we start?
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OpinionBlooming fashion ambitions for Mothercare
Mothercare’s acquisition of Blooming Marvellous today shows it has real ambitions to become a more fashionable proposition.
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M&S AGM highlights
Today’s M&S AGM was the usual entertaining - and quintessentially English - affair.
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More decisions....
Dalton Philips makes his first big appearance as Morrisons’ CEO tonight, and is clearly making his mark in Bradford.
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Flexible friends
Proposals that local authorities should be allowed to offer discounts on business rates to encourage investment in struggling high streets are a good idea.
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OpinionThe best visual merchandising is soon forgotten
Visual merchandising is a fickle partner. One day you’re being praised and admired by everyone, the next, the crowd has moved on.
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Florence and the machine
Florence & Fred’s planned West End store will test whether the brand can stand on its own feet without the Tesco machine.
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OpinionWill Ocado’s IPO bubble burst?
The great dotcom bubble was based on ‘get large or get lost’, start-ups buying market share to get growth and then IPO-ing even if they had never made a profit. So is history repeating itself? Only time will tell.
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OpinionThe best of both worlds
We could use some of the US’s ambition, but they can keep their food, says Malcolm Walker
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OpinionFocus on margins will be key to higher profits
It should be a statement of the obvious that selling more stuff but not making any more money out of it is no strategy for retailing. Yet in the relentless vanity-driven obsession with market share and like-for-like growth, the basics of making money sometimes get forgotten.
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OpinionDon’t be pilloried over pay
How striking that it is typically top-flight retailers that become embroiled in AGM fisticuffs.