Opinion – Page 371
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BRC sales data lifts mood with general retailers outperforming
General retailers had another good week as they outperformed the All Share index, although they still lagged behind on the year. Stronger than expected BRC’s sales data lifted the mood, although the organisation noted that widespread price-cutting contributed to the rise.
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Two horse race
Looking back at a press release from 2002 it’s clear to see how much the retail software market has consolidated.
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The tide is turning for retail parks
A tough market has forced landlords to be more creative with their space to pull in retailers
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Crossrail is beacon of hope for east Oxford Street
While Prime Minister Gordon Brown is being attacked from every political corner at the moment, the property industry should be thanking him. Last week, he gave the go-ahead for the Crossrail link – something that has been mooted since 1990.
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The way that food retailing should be
John Lewis has finally revealed its Oxford Street food hall and it is worth a visit.
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Will Sainsbury's recovery be sustained under Delta Two?
Sainsbury’s will post its second-quarter results on Wednesday, providing another key reading of the UK retail barometer ahead of the critical Christmas trading period.
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So how green is Wal-Mart?
Head: So how green is Wal-Mart?By John RyanTravel broadens the mind and while this may or may not be the case, sitting at a retail design conference in Atlanta this week, listening to Charles Zimmerman, was certainly educational.Zimmerman is a senior Wal-Mart apparatchik and he was instructing delegates in energy-saving ...
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Don’t go on the first day
One of the more rewarding aspects of covering retail design is that you get to see things before customers do. This means, for example, that the evening before the near-riot that took place when Primark opened its Oxford Street flagship this summer, the press were invited in to sip champagne-style ...
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Credit crunch
Credit may be hard to come by in world financial markets at the moment, but in the IT industry it’s a different matter
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Stores play catch up
A quick dash into M&S in Hammersmith yesterday certainly highlighted the point that customer expectations have been raised by the internet.
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JJB could have a sporting chance
Sales down, profits more than halved –there seemed little to cheer in JJB Sports’ interims last week. But the retailer’s share price ticked up as analysts responded enthusiastically to the update.
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Tesco’s biggest hurdle so far
No retailer is immune to the weather, not even Tesco. Yet in the same way that July’s squalls gave way to something resembling an Indian summer, the UK’s biggest retailer’s interims showed that once the climate had calmed down, normal service was very much resumed.
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Slow first half for Tesco
Retail giant Tesco will unveil its first-half results next week and some analysts are forecasting its UK like-for-like figures could be the weakest for years.
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Liberating luxury at Liberty
Loss-making department store Liberty has, in the past, lacked a certain je ne sais quois.
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Autumn is here
The leaves are beginning to turn and with them the fortunes of fashion retailers.
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The day the music dies
Music retailers are disappearing from the high street, but is anybody bothered?
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Developers are proving doommongers wrong
For the past two years the industry has bemoaned the amount of space coming onto the market. Cries of “too much space” and “retailers not expanding” have been heard up and down the country. While everyone eagerly awaits the plans for new shopping developments, they also adopt a cautionary view ...
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Food service is grocers’ new battleground
Steve Gotham, project director, Allegra Strategies
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OpinionRetail credit is still solid as a rock
Despite the Northern Rock crisis, consumers must believe they can trust buy now, pay later