Opinion – Page 351
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Woolies needs a merry Christmas
From Cardiff to Cheshunt, Paddington to Paisley, retail’s bunkers are readying themselves for the year’s biggest blowout – Christmas. Retailers that depend on second-half performance for the bulk or entirety of their profits – and there are plenty of them – will be chewing their nails in anxiety, because the ...
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Third-generation phone, first-generation service
If the chatter on the web is anything to go by, many customers have been disappointed by the process put in place by O2 for pre-registered customers to get their hands on the new 3G iPhone.
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A tenants' market
Speaking to a leading expert on the retail market at today’s Fashion Retail Academy graduation ceremony, we got onto the subject of new shopping centres and why, if the market is so bad, they all seem to be opening almost fully let.
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Location, location, location
It’s always easy to be wise after the event, but the demise of Ilva in the UK has to be seen as an accident waiting to happen.
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Store manager’s diary: Preparing for the Sale’s tricky balancing act
This has been an extremely busy week with my team and I am working hard to prepare for the imminent launch of the summer Sale. It’s our second biggest Sale of the year so it’s critical that I have a clear plan of action, with accountabilities and deadlines that take ...
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It’s bad, but it’ll get worse
No offence to Beales, but it’s come to something when it’s capitalised at three times as much as the two quoted sofa retailers.
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Competitiveness is key for M&S
No apologies for returning to the biggest story of the week, the trials of Marks & Spencer. After all, food is at the root of its problems.
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The Retail Week – July 4, 2008
The magic has well and truly evaporated from the retail Camelot created at Marks & Spencer by Sir Stuart Rose.
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The online agenda is changing
Online retail sales in the UK are set to triple by 2012 and retailers are creating increasingly sophisticated transactional sites to compete for part of this.
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Is electricals leaving consumers behind?
It was Intel co-founder Gordon Moore who pointed out that the number of transistors that could be put on integrated circuits appears to double every two years.
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This is not just the market…
He may have been the coldest fish to have occupied a senior role in retail in recent memory, but it’s hard not to feel a degree of sympathy for Steven Esom over his spectacular fall from grace.
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Big Brother goes green
Technology comes in for some stick for allowing people to snoop on others. Whether its e-mail, web monitoring or even CCTV, technology’s use often comes with negative connotations.
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Westfield is coming
Westfield London is taking shape fast. I visited the giant west London shopping centre last Friday, as the Australian developer gears up to start the marketing campaign to make consumers aware of what the new centre is all about.
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When small is beautiful
Despite what many acknowledge to be dire trading conditions, new shops continue to roll out of the store development pipeline and investment is clearly still being made in store design.
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Don’t discount the discounters
Michael and Vicky are a couple in their early 30s. They have one child, both have secure, professional jobs, are comfortably off and own their own home in a nice south London suburb. They live five minutes from one of Sainsbury’s flagship stores. But they choose to drive past it ...
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Retailers can’t afford not to go green
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ latest report, Sustainability: are consumers buying it?, highlights consumers’ increasing concerns about sustainability and their willingness not only to buy into the notion, but to change their behaviour.
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Reinvention will be our lifeline
Continually striving to improve everything we do will help retailers ride out this downturn
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OpinionBe eco-logical
Many UK retailers can now count themselves among those leading the way on today’s environmental and ethical issues.
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The Retail Week - June 27, 2008
A comment from DSGi chief executive John Browett in this morning’s Times caught my eye. Describing the new training programme for the company’s UK staff announced alongside yesterday’s terrible full-year results, he said: “This is not rocket science, it’s what anyone would do.”