Opinion – Page 352
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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.
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The big question for Woolworths
“Good management, bad business.” If Trevor Bish-Jones had a pound for every time someone said that about his time at Woolworths, his pay-off would pale into insignificance.
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EU is twisting the knife with tax hikes
Candles, bulbs, screws, bags and shoes: it could be that Two Ronnies sketch in the hardware shop – except this isn’t funny.
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Price alone won’t save the day
Retailers must back up low prices with good quality if they want to attract today’s consumer
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Advertising blast
When anyone – retailer or non-retailer – gets into a conversation about food shopping, they always point out that they have seen an increase in their bills.
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The Retail Week - June 20, 2008
It’s goodbye to Woolworths from Trevor Bish-Jones, but probably not a farewell to retail. I suspect we’ll hear more of Bish-Jones, assuming he doesn’t decide to sit back and enjoy spending his pay-off.
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May Day or Mayday?
May is traditionally celebrated as the month of rebirth, named after Maia, the Roman goddess of springtime, warmth and increase.
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A credit to internet retailing
On Monday another sign that the internet is the saviour of retail emerged, when leading credit rating agency Moody’s issued a note explaining that it is starting to take internet sales more seriously when it comes to giving retailers a credit rating.
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Out of town, out of fashion
Out-of-town retailing, whether through mega malls or retail parks, has been the focus of retailers’ expansion for the past two decades. But the balance is starting to shift.
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Game on or time to sell?
When computer entertainment specialist Game reports on trading next month, consumer favourites such as Grand Theft Auto and the Nintendo Wii should have driven sales skywards yet again.
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Budget small print could block retention
Given the climate, the retail sector needs all the help it can get.
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We have become a scapegoat
Whether it’s binge drinking, food prices or shoplifting, retailers are getting the blame
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Boots’ alliance has passed test
Cast your mind back a year, to the days when barely a week passed without Retail Week revealing the next big private equity deal.