Opinion – Page 346
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Good things will come out of the downturn
This is not the happiest of times to be a consumer electronics retailer. DSGi’s recent figures have not made mouth-watering reading and Kesa’s – aka Comet’s – have been equally reprehensible from the perspective of a retail shareholder.
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OpinionAre discount grocers a threat?
Defiant grocers Morrisons and Waitrose both delivered results yesterday and were predictably having to explain their position in light of the growth in the discounter sector.
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Gavin George: UK retailers are right to press on overseas
Reflecting on the past year’s advisory work, it’s clear that the retail sector is predominantly seeking support in just three areas – operational improvement, in its broadest sense, financial restructuring and international expansion.
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Jacqueline Gold: Olympian efforts are required
Team GB has given us something to talk about and points the way to the opportunity of 2012
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The news isn’t all bad – yet
Confused? Can’t understand the world around you? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. UK retail is a deeply confusing place right now and this week’s news does little to help clarify the picture.
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John Lewis – in fashion?
Prior to the opening of John Lewis’ store in Leicester last week, 700 staff were given a rallying call to rival Churchill’s “We shall fight them on the beaches” speech.
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City Insider: Simon Fox is working magic at HMV
There was no new Harry Potter book this year to summon up book sales but that other sorcerer, Magic Circle member and HMV boss Simon Fox, still managed to conjure an impressive performance at group level.
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Will the West End win?
This morning the New West End Company hosted an interesting breakfast meeting discussing the future of retail and how it affects the West End.
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UK value retailers have store design edge over US
A brief sojourn in the US’s northwest last week revealed that the problems and challenges faced by retailers in that part of the world are little different from those encountered here, but the solutions are not necessarily the same.
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Retail can and will get through this
In 10 years of following retail and the City, I can safely say the sector has not been so out of favour with the Square Mile as over the past year or so. Sure, there have been spills – the boom and bust of the dotcom era, economic fears after ...
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Act tough now and win later
As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.
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How labelling can give retailers the edge
For any football fan, the Holy Grail is going to Wembley. As you can imagine after the emotional highs and lows of watching my team, Cardiff City, get to the Cup Final for the first time since 1927 (even I wasn’t around then), I was not thrilled by the prospect ...
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An opportunity for shoppers
Retailers need to counter the despondency that the media is instilling in their customers.
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Viva España
As retailers return from their summer breaks, at least one is confident that it will keep the Mediterranean holiday spirit alive.
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Just browsing
The technology world is buzzing after Google launched an internet browser yesterday. Some suspect that the application, called Chrome, is just the beginning of Google’s ambitions to develop its own web-based operating system.
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What's the Verdict?
With prescient timing, Verdict has today predicted a revival in retail parks at the expense of city centre retail locations.
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Stick to your design guns
You might be forgiven for thinking that we're experiencing a little local economic difficulty.
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A forgotten age
In all the clamour to convince shoppers that they are the cheapest grocer, some supermarkets have forgotten one demographic group relatively unscathed by the credit crunch – the silver surfers.