All articles by Chris Brook-Carter – Page 2
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VideoThe Retail Week: Special Live edition covering highlights across the event
At the end of the first day, Nectar MD Will Shuckburgh joins the Retail Week team to discuss the most memorable moments from the event.
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VideoRetail Week Live: What can the retail industry learn from other sectors?
Nectar managing director Will Shuckburgh joins Bryan Roberts and Chris Brook-Carter to discuss how retail can innovate by learning from others.
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OpinionOpinion: Mixed track record of CVAs puts BHS and Beales on a knife-edge
CVAs can be a effective option for embattled retailers, but history is littered with examples where it was an ill-suited approach to pursue.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers must heed warnings of structural revolution
Following predictions that 1 million retail jobs will be lost by 2025, the industry and Government must adapt – but time is of the essence.
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OpinionOpinion: High-stake Brexit debate demands retail engagement
The EU referendum outcome will be a pivotal moment in UK history and as the largest private employer our industry must join the debate.
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OpinionOpinion: Chief customer roles underpin how shoppers think about retail
News Asda has hired Saatchi & Saatchi X founder Andy Murray as chief customer officer once again casts a spotlight on this very modern role.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers must confront rising costs and flat growth
Retailers must reasses the structure of their businesses to meet the unstoppable rise of digital commerce without destroying profitability.
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OpinionOpinion: Asda job losses a reminder of difficult decisions facing grocers
In the face of the headwinds in which the UK grocery market has had to operate, Asda has never shirked from taking difficult decisions.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Bunnings moves, Christmas fallout and Asda job cuts
The team discusses the week’s top retail news as Bunnings announces its plans to replace Homebase and Asda reveals job cuts.
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OpinionOpinion: Retail should prepare for a year of unprecedented change
If the unsettled start to the year is the shape of things to come, don’t expect 2016 to be the era the new normal emerges in retail.
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OpinionOpinion: Consumer focus will mark out retail winners in 2016
While the golden quarter may have disappointed, 2016 is a new opportunity for retail to return to growth by focusing on consumer experience.
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OpinionOpinion: Dixons Carphone flags changing shape of seasonal trading
The latest results from Dixons Carphone demonstrate how the retail landscape of the all-important golden quarter continues to shift.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers should take heart despite golden quarter woes
Reports of disappointing trading in November after Black Friday weekend do not bode badly for retail in the countdown to Christmas.
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OpinionOpinion: Black Friday continues to confound retailer expectations
The overwhelming shift towards online shopping on Black Friday shows how the Sales bonanza still has the capacity to surprise.
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OpinionOpinion: B&M has earned its place in battle of the discounters
Value retailer B&M this week posted results that underpin its position as one of the fastest-growing retailers in the UK.
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OpinionOpinion: Sainsbury’s resilience is key for future growth
The latest results from Sainsbury’s demonstate that its plans are working despite the strong headwinds facing the grocery market.
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OpinionM&S margin focus pays off but sales growth is still needed
M&S interim results reveal growth in both ecommerce and food, but general merchandise sees its fifth year of like-for-like decline.
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OpinionNew names on the high street prove the industry’s vibrancy
Retail Week’s new website recently broke the news that Andy Bond aims to open a new retailer, which shows competition is alive and well.
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NewsWelcome to the new Retail Week website
Over the past few years we have witnessed a significant shift in how you, our customers, find, read and engage with our content.
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AnalysisAs Waitrose's Mark Price exits retail he leaves lessons for all
The departure of the self-styled chubby grocer Mark Price from Waitrose will leave a larger-than-life hole in the John Lewis Partnership.