All Opinion articles – Page 198
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OpinionBlog: Very tie up allows shoppers to "shop" Big Brother house
Online retailer Very has launched a tie-up with reality TV show Big Brother that allows viewers to buy products featured in the programme.
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Blog: Success shines the spotlight on the power of customer data
The recent Retail Week Technology Awards highlighted the vital role technology plays in enhancing the customer experience.
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OpinionComment: Businesses should be aiming for a retail revolution
Dame Anita Roddick, at the peak of The Body Shop’s powers, employed a team of scientists and formulators to work purely on discovering exciting new ingredients in the Amazon rainforest.
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OpinionComment: Retail at top of its game through 25 years of change
In 1988, when Patience Wheatcroft published the first issue of Retail Week, she was confident she had “created a newspaper that a dynamic, innovative and professional industry like retailing deserves”.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I better utilise my in-store staff?
How can I better utilise my in-store staff?
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OpinionRetail surgery: How might the appointment of a regulator for interchange help retailers?
How might the appointment of a regulator for interchange help retailers?
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OpinionComment: Nick Bubb on 25 years of dramatic change in retail
Retailing in 25 years time will be very different, but it will change as dramatically as it has in the last 25 years?
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OpinionComment: Continued innovation key to Dixons future
Dixons has a strong management team and are very solid operationally, but it now needs to transform the brand and the customer’s experience and perception.
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OpinionComment: ONS retail sales expose battle to stay relevant
We all heard the sigh of relief this morning. The ONS figures seem to indicate a modest uptick in sales volumes for May as food in particular spearheaded a sales rise.
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OpinionComment: Marks & Spencer is neglecting the flagship store format
Marc Bolland said recently that M&S’s famous Marble Arch store has “passed the baton” as flagship to the retailer’s online shop.
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OpinionComment: Majestic shows specialists can compete against big grocers
If Majestic Wine was a bottle of bubbly, it might appear to lack a little sparkle. Profits didn’t move much last year and sales were down.
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OpinionComment: Retailers are leading the charge at Cannes Lions
This week sees Adland decamping to Cote D’Azur, for the Cannes Lions Festival.
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OpinionBlog: Tesco innovation ambassador Paul Wilkinson on how 3D printing can revolutionise retail
Behind the scenes at Tesco HQ teams of technology experts work away.
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OpinionComment: The high street needs an independent review
The disconnect between shoppers and the high street requires an independent review, argues Bill Grimsey.
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OpinionBlog: Etailers should not be penalised for having cost-effective business models
Sofa.com’s letter to the Treasury earlier this week warned an online retail tax would “hit at the heart of the UK’s world-leading online retail industry”.
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OpinionComment: Retailers need to focus on tackling the rates burden, not attacking online players
It is no surprise that, when faced with something as unfair as the ever increasing burden of the rates bill, retailers should want to share the pain.
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OpinionComment: Retailers need to understand the new generation of consumers
Just when retailers thought they had digital and multichannel cracked, there is now a potentially bigger nightmare
on the horizon, one that could threaten the existence of some: Generation Y. -
OpinionComment: Will a sub-standard retail environment turn customers off?
Let’s invent a new shop. It will stock books. Well, actually, it will stock very few books. Instead there will be endless repetitions of a few titles.
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OpinionBlog: Ex-TOWIE star Mark Wright is the right fit for Littlewoods
For some Mark Wright, ex-The Only Way is Essex star, might seem like a strange fit for Littlewoods as he fronts the retailer’s new menswear collection. But I think he will give the brand the edginess it needs to engage with a more fashion-conscious man.
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Blog: The smaller they are, the harder they fall
At Fat Face, we’re no strangers to excitement and danger. A sense of adventure runs through the whole company, originally set up to support two friends skiing in the Alps.