Opinion – Page 351
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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.”
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Store manager’s diary: Liverpool launch has been inspiring for staff
It’s a really exciting time at John Lewis at the moment. We are moving full swing into the biggest period of expansion that we have undertaken to date, doubling the size of the business over the next decade.
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How good will Best Buy be?
How typical of a journalist to accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive, but here goes.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't
It’s hard to know who will get the most attention at Tesco’s AGM today. It could be the chicken campaigners, the Barack Obama-supported US union or the Unite protesters presenting chief executive Sir Terry Leahy with a “golden loo”.
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Mind the gap
“Please mind the gap,” retailers will urge Bank of England Governor Mervyn King when he makes a decision about interest rates next month.
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Retail Solutions: Day One
Much of the retail news right now is doom and gloom. But not at the first day of Retail Solutions yesterday, where there was a little love in the air.
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Where the value lies
Land Securities’ £100 million planning application to redevelop Liverpool’s St John’s Centre, featured in last week’s Retail Week, isn’t the type of development story you see too often these days.
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A tougher game
News that the chief executive and chairman of quoted shopfitter Styles & Wood (S&W) have exited stage left is an indication of the way things are heading in retail at the moment and the way in which this is cascading down the store design supply chain.