Opinion – Page 72
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OpinionOpinion: Bailey will be a tough act to follow
Cast your mind back to 2001. Tony Blair was in power, Westlife were at number one – and every market stall sold Burberry check baseball caps.
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OpinionPartnerships are key to independent retailers’ success
As I’m writing this column from Barcelona, it can only possibly have one theme: independence – the goal that Catalan secessionists continue to worship in blatant disregard of constitutional integrity, economic reality, European fraternity and the silenced majority.
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OpinionAsda: Shopfloor voices were key to Clarke’s turnaround
A great story is told about when Justin King joined Sainsbury’s as chief executive.
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OpinionOpinion: Wilko needs an update, and soon
With large numbers of staff accepting redundancy and a slump in profits, what should Wilko do to make things better?
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OpinionOpinion: This is not the end for traditional retail
Traditional retailing in Britain is dying. Or at least – if we listen to industry analysts – it is close enough to the verge of extinction to be on the endangered list.
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OpinionOpinion: Retail’s Black Friday fate hinges on mobile
As a consumer, the prospect of Black Friday means to start planning ways to put yourself into financial ruin nice and early.
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OpinionThe importance of mentoring from within
On National Mentoring Day, Hermes HR director Jill Maples looks at the positive impact mentoring can have on employee engagement and development.
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OpinionWhen personalisation is creepy, not cool
I’m sure every one of us has seen the famous Piccadilly Lights in London – the neon extravaganza that has illuminated Piccadilly Circus for decades.
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OpinionOpinion: New Look is right to turn to an old face
We’ve been here before. With New Look battered, bruised and seemingly on the ropes, the embattled business desperately needs a saviour.
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OpinionOpinion: How will you create your retail legacy?
With UK politics in such a precarious state, the huge unknowns flowing from the Brexit referendum and the changes in consumer shopping behaviour, I find it hard to remember a more difficult era for retailers to steer their businesses along the best path for long-term prosperity.
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OpinionOpinion: Investors will race for a stake in Footasylum
JD Sports founders John Wardle and David Makin are going for gold a second time by running back to the stock market with Footasylum.
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OpinionDoes ‘experience’ just mean service at John Lewis?
There’s quite a lot on offer in Oxford’s new John Lewis, but is the ‘experience’ of shopping the store something that’s been around for years?
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OpinionIs Amazon creating the most convenient delivery ever?
The world of online delivery has transformed rapidly in recent years, particularly when it comes to click and collect.
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OpinionOpinion: Oxford’s Westgate will be a disappointment
Appropriately in the city of dreaming spires, the £440m Westgate centre extension in Oxford has been a vision of retailers, developers and city councillors for over 20 years.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers haven’t mastered the mobile basics
If you’ve visited a retail event recently, you’ll likely have heard about mobile shopping’s next exciting phase.
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OpinionTheo Paphitis: Every employee needs a workplace pension
Business leaders must make sure all employees have a workplace pension, urges Theo Paphitis.
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OpinionOpinion: Zara’s profits should worry everyone but Zara
Astronomically successful, impossibly on-trend, killing the little people and the high street alike – Zara has barely stopped for breath in the last few years.
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OpinionTopshop and Zara can fashion a merry Christmas
If anyone was under any illusions as to the ferocious nature of the fashion market, this week has served up a clutch of timely reminders.
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OpinionOpinion: Others should follow Topshop’s ‘reset’ lead
A day in October when you are not going to take much money is the perfect time to shut up shop and remerchandise rather than muddling through.
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OpinionOpinion: Digital shelf-edge labelling is the future
You all know that ad that goes “it does what it says on the tin”, but how many retailers can match up to this simple claim?