Opinion – Page 333
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OpinionCrown Estate shouldn’t forget how tough things are
Perhaps nobody told the Crown Estate, but the days of snobbery towards value shops are over.
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OpinionMoscow embraces the mid-market
Moscow has an impressive luxury brand offer, but in these straitened times it is the mid-market retailers such as Karen Millen that are really taking flight, so is the time right for more mid-market UK retailers to start a Russian love affair?
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OpinionTesco thinks ahead
With promotions and price cuts everywhere you turn it is clear that the grocers need something else in their arsenal to make vacillating customers more loyal to their offer in the long run.
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OpinionCarpetright on solid ground
The latest BRC retail sales figures showed that while some sectors were up after several months of poor trade, the furniture and floor coverings sector worsened. But next week we may well see one retailer faring better than most in its sector – Carpetright.
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OpinionA few blips, but Tesco is still a model retailer
For what’s supposedly been a bad year for the UK’s biggest retailer, the full-year results released by Tesco on Tuesday were anything but.
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OpinionMy word is my bond
Renegotiating deals after signing them is not the way to deal with recession, says Lord Kirkham
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Resenting bankers won’t get us far
The media’s and politicians’ campaign of vilification against individual bankers makes good copy but is just a convenient diversion from the real economic problems.
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OpinionAlexon's war of attrition
Beleaguered Alexon has a fight on its hands if it is to survive in tact this year, after it revealed a dire full-year performance.The retailer’s plunge in to the red was largely due to the performance of its young-fashion brand Bay Trading, where £7m-plus losses dragged down the rest of ...
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OpinionIT spending for success
Despite the recession and general budget belt-tightening, the results announcements from several retailers this week show just how busy IT departments are being kept.Buried in Tesco’s results is the nugget that the grocer is beavering away on migrating the systems used by Tesco Personal Finance to its own computing platforms. ...
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OpinionShopping centre security is a balancing act retailers must get right
The news that the averted Easter bomb plot was targeting shopping centres will have come as a sobering reminder to retailers and landlords about how vulnerable a position they are in.
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Food retailers are missing a trick
While money may be in relatively short supply, there are still plenty of affluent neighbourhoods in our larger cities where foodies are shopping in small, deli-style stores.
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OpinionWhy Tesco's short-term mistakes could end up being long-term triumphs
Tesco has come in for plenty of stick lately, but the grocer came out of the last recession strongly, so who’s to say it doesn’t know what it is doing this time around?
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OpinionKingfisher well placed for future
This year Easter is just one battle in a longer war of attrition between the DIY groups that many believe will end in consolidation.
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OpinionFacing the fear factor
It is vital to encourage spending and stop consumer confidence sliding, says Andy Clarke
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People are your most powerful asset
A financial services sector wrestling with toxic assets, a housing market in steep decline, unemployment rising inexorably… the harbingers of gloom have much to gorge upon.
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March retail sales something to celebrate
The newspaper coverage of the BRC-KPMG retail sales figures for March was thinner on the ground than usual. A good news story for retail does not seem to command as many column inches as when things are going south.
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OpinionEU investigates tracking of UK internet users
The EU has begun legal proceedings against the British Government, arguing that it has failed to properly implement European laws designed to protect internet users. What does this mean for e-commerce and online marketing?
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Second time lucky for Butlers?
Butlers had all but pulled out of the UK retail scene, but now it is on the verge of reinventing itself and having another crack at the market. Will it be successful?
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OpinionOcado has carved itself a niche
Ocado has had a tough first few years setting up and competing with the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury’s but the e-tailer is starting to see the light.