Opinion – Page 327
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OpinionSummertime and the shopping is… almost impossible
It’s summer: season of rain, flash floods and, er, major civil engineering projects. Try cutting through central London at the moment and the chances are very high that your progress will be slowed by closed streets, roadworks and temporary traffic lights.Even semi-pedestrianised thoroughfares, such as Covent Garden’s Neal Street, are ...
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OpinionTables could turn in grocery
Auctioning off a 25lb pork pie could only have happened at a Marks & Spencer AGM, and it could only have been fronted by the showman himself Sir Stuart Rose.
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OpinionShops are 21st century tourist attractions
Governments and nations seem to think it is totemic to have their own airline. This attitude has slowed down the natural process of consolidation in what remains a very challenged industry.
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OpinionE-tail’s debt to the old retail greats
The principles of pioneers such as Gordon Selfridge are as relevant as ever in modern retailing
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OpinionRetail surgery: Make the delivery of facilities management to stores more efficient
What can we do to make the delivery of facilities management to stores a more efficient process?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Working with voucher code sites
How can we work with voucher code sites so they only publicise codes that we want to make openly available?
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OpinionBurberry keeps recession in check
Harry Potter star Emma Watson – the current face of Burberry – has lent some magic to the luxury fashion brand.
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OpinionEvery little innovation helps
Could Tesco’s revamped application programming interface (API) be the spur for other retailers to encourage third-party developers to build new customer-facing e-tail applications?
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OpinionToo much security could stifle shopping centre pipeline
The BCSC was right to express concerns last week at proposals for the future of shopping centre security being mooted by the Government.
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OpinionRefurbish stores – new ones can wait
New formats may be thin on the ground, but that isn’t stopping retailers polishing up pre-existing stores.
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OpinionThreshers just needs a little care
Off-licence chain Threshers has been hit with several problems, but it’s a business model that works. Will it be given the opportunity to shine?
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OpinionA kick in the ballots
Some of the biggest retailers have been forced on the defensive in the face of shareholder uprisings unparalleled in more than a decade.
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OpinionBecome part of the story
Retailers should make the most of the media circus to raise their profiles, says Jacqueline Gold
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OpinionWindow shopping has moved online
A look at some recent results shows interesting diversity in the world of online retailing.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Hidden costs when relaunching e-commerce sites
We plan to relaunch our e-commerce site and have been given a cost for development. Will there be any hidden costs for the business?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Reducing the complexity and cost of supporting IT in stores
How can we reduce the complexity and cost of supporting IT in our stores?
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OpinionMarks & sparks as Sir Stuart Rose and Sir David Jones face shareholder concern
Two of retail’s great leaders Sir Stuart Rose and Sir David Jones have faced intense investor scrutiny this week.
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OpinionHas the retail information age arrived?
One of the main conclusions of Retail Week’s webinar on information management recorded last week was that all the data retailers need to maximise their businesses is already there – what’s needed now is staff and systems who can make use of it.On a blisteringly hot day in central London ...
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OpinionNow the UK needs a ban on upward-only rent reviews
There hasn’t been much cheer coming out of Ireland over the last year, but the news that upward-only rent reviews have been banned in the Republic of Ireland will definitely have heartened retailers with stores there.
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OpinionDoggy bag for Pets at Home
News that private equity firm Bridgepoint is mulling the flotation of its Pets at Home chain, which it bought for £230m in 2004, should come as no surprise as it has now done most of what could reasonably be done with the stores in a short time.The refinancing subsequent to ...