All Opinion articles – Page 208
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Opinion
Blog: With great brands come great design challenges
Jigsaw24 is the largest supplier of Apple products to the UK’s creative industry. With such tech savvy customers, the company’s site needed to hit the mark in terms of user experience.
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OpinionComment: Trinity Leeds and Buchanan Street – the last hurrah?
Leeds and Glasgow were the locations last week in which excited, or so it seemed, shoppers headed out to inspect new shopping destinations.
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OpinionBlog: River Island uses augmented reality for Rihanna collection
UK fashion retailer River Island is using augmented reality technology to offer interactive content around the launch of the Rihanna for River Island collection.
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OpinionComment: Inflation is vital to help keep business in the black
‘Greed is good!’ Even those of you who have never seen the film Wall Street have probably heard of Gordon Gekko and his iconic speech.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I improve supply chain visibility?
How can I improve supply chain visibility?
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OpinionRetail surgery: How are the upcoming changes to consumer rights going to affect retailers?
How are the upcoming changes to consumer rights going to affect retailers?
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OpinionComment: Complacency breeds high street failures
Andy Grove, one of the men behind Intel, once said: “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
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OpinionNick Bubb's Verdict: Next - Don’t mention the weather?
The standard advice for retailers trying to explain away weak trading is not to blame “the weather”, so why did Next fall into that apparent trap today?
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OpinionComment: The Government must tackle the unfair business rates system
The Chancellor George Osborne seems to have ignored calls for a temporary freeze on business rates in this year’s Budget.
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OpinionComment: Trinity Leeds opening is a welcome boost for retail
The opening of Trinity Leeds today is welcome news for the UK retail property market. Despite the economic gloom, retailer demand for space in the 1 million sq ft shopping centre has been impressive.
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OpinionComment: Tesco’s Price Promise scheme raises own-label debate
Battle lines have been drawn this week between Tesco and Sainsbury’s, with Justin King, blasting Tesco’s Price Promise scheme.
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OpinionComment: Private companies prosper at Oracle Retail Week Awards
Entries for two thirds of last week’s 18 Oracle Retail Week Awards came from the contenders themselves.
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OpinionComment: Is there such a thing as a ‘perfect’ retailer?
Times are tough for UK retailers so it’s all too easy to focus on failure but we mustn’t forget there are still some big successes.
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OpinionComment: Budget blow for retail but door opens for rates reform
Chancellor George Osborne failed to heed the warnings of the retail industry and freeze business rates in the Budget today.
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OpinionBlog: Last chance to enter BT Retail Week Technology Awards
There’s just a few days left to get your entries in for the BT Retail Week Technology Awards.
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OpinionBlog: Tesco's Price Promise may prove a game changer
Tesco has been late to the market with its coupon at till Price Promise, but it may well end up being a game changer.
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OpinionBlog: The two unlikely keys to omnichannel success
Collaboration in retail supply chains, both the sharing of infrastructure, like shared trucks and warehouses, or the sharing of data, would give great benefits to retailers and their customers.
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OpinionComment: Shoppers still need bricks-and-mortar stores
There are numerous ways to effect a purchase these days, but ultimately, the bricks-and-mortar shop will not disappear.
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OpinionBlog: Ted Baker comes top of the social networking class
Retailers unsure of how to use Twitter and Facebook should take a leaf out of Ted Baker’s book, which is a star pupil when it comes to using social networks.
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OpinionComment: Special retail occasions are reasons to celebrate
The best retailers are the ones that give their customers a good reason to part with their hard-earned cash.