All Opinion articles – Page 123
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OpinionRFID blog: Revealing the what, when, where and why of your supply chain
With its strength in identifying individual items or assets and their whereabouts, RFID offers a multitude of benefits across the entire supply chain.
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OpinionComment: Real retail loyalty is about long-term customer relationships
Lidl’s Smarter Shopping trial has sparked debate about whether it is a loyalty scheme. It doesn’t matter, as long as it builds relationships.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can retailers hire the right temporary staff quickly?
How can retailers hire the right temporary staff quickly?
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OpinionFrom Sunday hours to business rates, retailers must make their voices heard
What’s the point of having leaders if they don’t lead? Our Government has not solved the problems facing the industry so bosses must speak up.
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OpinionChina crisis could take toll on UK retailers at home and abroad
China’s financial fortune cookie looks as if it may be in danger of being smashed to smithereens as investors worldwide dump equities.
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OpinionHow Lidl's glorified vouchering reveals fears of a big four fightback
Lidl’s ‘smarter shopping’ promotion is a step towards the mainstream supermarkets it has strived to differentiate itself from.
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OpinionComment: How social media influence will increasingly affect retail success
Retail is a social activity so it is no surprise that the industry and consumers alike have embraced social media as part of the experience.
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OpinionWhat retailers can learn from Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet controversy
To read the commentary on Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet would lead one to assume that a failure of epic proportions is unfolding.
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OpinionComment: There is more to retail than convenience stores
Some grocers are rushing to open a c-store on every street corner, but retail is a sector of many parts and big shops still matter.
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OpinionBlog: Why retailers are looking outside the industry for digital talent
House of Fraser is the latest retailer to look outside retail for talent, having turned to the US financial industry for a high-level digital recruit.
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OpinionBlog: Delivery firms must offer more options for UK workers
As offices crack down on work-time shopping deliveries, retailers and delivery companies need to offer more choice to consumers, says Mark Pettit.
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OpinionComment: How retailers are restructuring around the chief customer officer
Traditional models of retail are changing and businesses need a senior role that reflects that – the chief customer officer.
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OpinionJacqueline Gold: Retailers have the influence to affect real social reform
You shouldn’t give power to people who want it too much. That goes for business as much as it does for the next leader of the Labour Party.
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OpinionComment: Asda aims to kick sales falls into touch
Asda’s weak second-quarter performance will have done little to quell the whisperings that boss Andy Clarke’s position is under pressure.
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OpinionRFID blog: Exposing the top five myths of RFID technology in retail
Ten years ago RFID was going to set the retail world on fire, and then nothing happened – leaving a number of myths about the technology to spread.
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OpinionComment: Morrisons took an old-fashioned approach to convenience
Morrisons was late to the c-store party and may have been the architect of its own misfortune as regards its convenience sector foray.
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OpinionBlog: Supermarket milk prices are not only a moral issue
Whether the milk crisis is moral or material, have Morrisons taken the right tactic in letting consumers decide?
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I make online ads relevant for my customers?
How can I make online ads relevant for my customers?
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OpinionLet’s kick stereotypes into touch ahead of this year's Christmas ad blitz
When they only had 30 seconds to get across a message, it was no wonder the Mad Men of yore relied on stereotypical characterisation.