All Opinion articles – Page 215
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Opinion
Blog: Mobile couch potatoes help rack up record online sales
Online shopping stats from our e-commerce platform, FrescaCommerce have revealed a new trend. It seems more and more of us are tuning in, switching on, and checking out while watching TV.
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Opinion
Blog: Mobile couch potatoes help rack up record online sales
Online shopping stats from our e-commerce platform, FrescaCommerce have revealed a new trend. It seems more and more of us are tuning in, switching on, and checking out while watching TV.
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OpinionBlog: The BT Retail Week Technology Awards have launched
The BT Retail Week Technology awards have now launched, and they’re a great way both to highlight your hard work this year and to help boost the profile of technology in retail.
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OpinionComment: What Morrisons could do better
A visit to the refitted Morrisons in Camden on Saturday afternoon was revealing. One morning, in the autumn last year, the suits were out in force admiring the change that had been wrought in the store following a makeover.
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Opinion
Blog: NRF 2013 - record numbers, reduced effort and virtual bears
It’s in New York and it’s billed as Retail’s Big Show, so I didn’t need to be asked twice! And along with more than 27,000 other delegates at the 102nd National Retail Federation conference, we helped to make Retail’s Big Show the biggest ever.
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OpinionComment: UK retailers sense stability in consumer sentiment
The positive results last week from retailers including Asos, Dixons and Home Retail Group demonstrate the dangers of viewing UK retail as a single, endangered entity.
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OpinionComment: We don’t need quotas for diversity in the workplace
It’s rare a month goes by without some survey reporting that girls are better than boys, or vice versa. To save the pain of enduring any more of this nonsense, shall we call it evens?
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OpinionComment: A refocus on music should have been a priority for HMV
In 2002, Beverley Knight released her signature single Shoulda Woulda Coulda. It reached number 10 in the charts, because back then record stores still sold singles.
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OpinionRetail Surgery: How can I reduce my energy output and costs?
How can I reduce my energy output and costs?
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OpinionRetail Surgery: With so many online platforms available, how can I improve customer engagement?
With so many online platforms available, how can I improve customer engagement?
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OpinionBlog: Iceland stakes claim to Christmas win
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker claimed a victory in the battle for grocery spend this week as the tussle to compare figures has left the industry confounded.
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OpinionBlog: It's an etail world, but don't over promise
By now we all know that most retailers should be embracing online. It was by far the stand out performer over Christmas, according to the British Retail Consortium, and is the area where much of a retailer’s investment is going at the moment.
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OpinionComment: Retailers can take valuable lessons from restaurateurs
In New York last week, investment bank Financo’s 23rd successive Annual Forum was attended by 275 elite invitees, including the chief executives of some celebrated global brands.
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OpinionComment: Welcome back to a top retail role, Sir Stuart Rose
It’s good to see Sir Stuart Rose back in retail’s public company world as chairman of online grocer Ocado.
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OpinionNick Bubb's Verdict: Sales bad, profits good at WHSmith... again
Bearish hedge funds have been targeting several UK retailers in recent weeks, expecting their shares to go down after disappointing trading at Christmas.
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OpinionComment: HMV should celebrate difference to become a destination again
This week’s suggestions that labels like Universal, Warner and Sony will join forces to “save” HMV don’t bode well for the brand’s long term viability.
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OpinionComment: There is no longer a 'new or normal'
Multi-channel, cross-channel, omni-channel, any-channel, ecommerce, m-commerce, f-commerce, s-commerce - what does it all mean?
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OpinionBlog: Currys is making the most of Pinterest
Last year there was a huge buzz about Pinterest, hailed as the next big thing in social media.
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OpinionComment: Who and what is the nemesis of Amazon?
For the past few years I have been in equal measures alarmed and fascinated by the phenomenon we have been witnessing in the world of retail.
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OpinionBlog: Sir Stuart will relish the Ocado challenge
Sir Stuart Rose is making a welcome return to major retail in March, and he possibly couldn’t have chosen a more controversial retailer to do it with than Ocado.