Opinion – Page 319
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OpinionA vote of confidence in UK retail
Retailers will have to run faster to stand still. Competition will intensify and the margin for error will narrow.
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Retail surgery: Protect your online brand name
How can I protect my brand when it comes to website domain names?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensure your customers accept your terms and conditions
How can I make sure customers accept our terms and conditions when they buy from us?
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What next for First Quench?
The ferocious discounting from the supermarkets has done the likes of Threshers very few favours
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OpinionPrimark wins praise as ethics take centre stage
They say no publicity is bad publicity, but as allegations about Primark’s sourcing came in thick and fast, questioning its ethics, the old adage started to look flawed.
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OpinionLike-for-like differences linger on
A feature on like-for-like sales that I wrote a few weeks ago caused more controversy than was intended; and one retailer has quickly responded by issuing multiple sales measures for comparative purposes.
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OpinionA year of Westfield London
Westfield London has been a real success, but its developer continues to inspire mixed feelings.
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OpinionArcadia: a tale of two brands
Arcadia’s recent results mask the fact that there are some less than ideal formats in the group
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OpinionThe writing was already on the wall
Threshers owner First Quench has plunged into administration. Where does that leave its some 6,200 staff?
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OpinionIs Matalan really worth £1.5bn?
Would you buy a business from John Hargreaves? For the sake of clarity, that’s as much a compliment to him as it is a caution to others.
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OpinionCreating opportunities out of today’s adversity
Beneath the debates over when the recession is going to end, whether shoppers will come out for Christmas, and how bad 2010 will be, there’s a quiet revolution going on in non-food retail.
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OpinionArmbands on the Titanic
It’s a funny word, ombudsman. Apparently it’s Old Swedish in origin, and Sweden established a Parliamentary Ombudsman as long ago as 1809.
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OpinionCan retailers deliver the goods?
The postal strike has cast the spotlight strongly back onto the doorstep and with it the abiding challenge of ecommerce; the ‘Last Mile’, that final hurdle of fulfilment for pure-play and multichannel alike.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring minimum disruption during the postal strikes
The Royal Mail strikes will severely affect our online fulfilment. How can we keep track of everything and ensure minimum disruption?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring online shopping carts cope at Christmas
We lost business last year in the run-up to Christmas because our shopping cart couldn’t cope with the traffic spike. How can we prevent this happening?
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OpinionLast night a kiosk changed my life
Just a couple of years back most retailers had written off in-store kiosks. But I had a moment in an Argos store yesterday; and it has made me think again about whether consumer perceptions of the technology have changed.
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OpinionWho are they kidding?
Today’s Times suggests landlords think the retail recession is over. That optimism might be misplaced.
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OpinionRetailing’s bit of rough
The rise and rise of the pop-up shop has meant that many eyes have turned to the lower end of the market for new ideas.
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OpinionA touch of Qatar
Just when we thought a year might pass without talk of a bid for Sainsbury’s, the Qataris are back in business.