Opinion – Page 96
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OpinionOpinion: Could Grimsey help Andy Street strengthen West Midlands retail?
As Andy Street enters the running to be mayor of the West Midlands, it might be worth him – and his rivals – dusting off The Grimsey Review.
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OpinionOpinion: Enjoy London’s shopping. This is as good as it gets
Business rates may not mean wholesale store closures, but they will sadly mean poorer shops.
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OpinionOpinion: impact of the national living wage six months on
The introduction of the national living wage in April does not appear to have stifled the retail sector – at least not yet.
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OpinionOpinion: Tesco has momentum but faces a pension-shaped reality check
If there was a chance of Tesco investors or its executive team getting carried away with recent momentum, this week could provide a reality check.
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OpinionNick Bubb on Andy Street’s John Lewis legacy – sales good, profits bad?
Andy Street has been a brilliant and energetic leader of the John Lewis Partnership, but how strong will his legacy be?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Why retailers need to speed up in-store payments
Why retailers need to speed up in-store payments with mobile points-of-sale
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OpinionOpinion: Emotion tracking – insight into customers or a bit creepy?
Ask any retail exec what is the most important part of their business and you will likely be told the customer.
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OpinionOpinion: Is there life beyond bricks-and-mortar for BHS?
It’s all change at BHS as the high street icon finds new life as an online retailer. How can its new owners ensure etail success?
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OpinionBlog: Driving change in retail through the millennial generation
Hermes’ Joanne Morley explains why millennials’ online shopping habits are influencing big decisions in logistics and retail.
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OpinionOpinion: It is time to end the tyranny of fashion seasons
Many apparel retailers still operate according to the traditional seasons. The trouble is, the weather often refuses to follow suit.
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OpinionOpinion: How is Aldi being impacted by the resurgence of the big four?
Ah, Aldi, the simple discounter that rocked up on the UK’s shores in the late 2000s and immediately started taking share left, right and centre.
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OpinionOpinion: the insatiable appetite for new tech signals more change in retail
When I first lived in London 40 years ago, Oxford Street stores opened 9am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and one late night until 8pm on Thursday.
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OpinionOpinion: The modern challenges redesigning how we shop
Recent headlines about how accessible the once-distant world of luxury retailing is fast becoming have got the industry thinking.
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OpinionOpinion: Higher prices and squeezing suppliers won’t help retail performance
I have never known such uncertainty permeating the industry in more than 30 years. It makes for short-termism and muddy thinking.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can retailers portray their values to incoming staff?
How can retailers portray their values to incoming staff?
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OpinionBlog: Sales is vanity, profit is sanity - except in online?
’Sales is vanity, profit is sanity’ goes that old retail idiom. But why does that not apply to the world of online delivery?
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OpinionOpinion: Sales on a plane – why in-flight retail is about to take off
Aeroplanes are not an obvious retail channel, but as flights enabled with Wi-Fi become the norm, could they be a beacon for online retail?
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OpinionOpinion: Consumers have transformed the catwalk into a real-time runway
Only a few years ago, the runway traditionally served as an exclusive industry event tailored to the privileged few press and buyers.
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OpinionOpinion: John Lewis takes short-term profit pain for long-term gain
Bellwether retailer the John Lewis Partnership, which rarely puts a foot wrong, appears to have stumbled over falling profits.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers must face axe-grinding MPs or risk their reputation
Collective groans will have emanated from retail boardrooms last week after MPs announced they were launching a probe into corporate governance.