All Opinion articles – Page 320
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OpinionRetail can close the online divide
We need to start a wide-ranging national effort to ensure that as many people as possible are brought into the digital world.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring CCTV evidence can be used in court
We have CCTV in our stores and use it to detect theft. How can we ensure that the evidence we collect can be used in court?
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OpinionTesco bids to step out of Asos’s online shadow
Tesco has launched what has widely been reported as its challenge to Asos; its much anticipated online clothing offer.
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OpinionConsumers go upwardly mobile
Retailers who believe that m-commerce is a long way off should think again with the news that there will be two mobile phone subscriptions for every three people in the world by the end of this year.The announcement, from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that there will be 4.6 billion ...
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OpinionRoads to nowhere
Investment in infrastructure — like the construction of Edinburgh’s new tram system — will inevitably cause disruption to retailers, but can’t be at any price.
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OpinionGIVing us reasons to shop
Stepping into the new GIVe store on Regent Street is a bit of an emperor’s new clothes moment.
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OpinionPurge the peripherals
Taking an axe to non-core marketing activity will clarify your key message, says Simon Burke
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OpinionSecond time lucky for New Look flotation?
New Look is heading the pack of private equity backed retailers considering a return to the market next year.
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OpinionA battle has been won at Marks & Spencer
M&S can afford to be satisfied, though not complacent. It still has a long road to travel to regain past levels of success.
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OpinionSocial media is ideal for online ads
Despite the growing evidence that customers spend more of their time these days online, retailers valiantly cling to traditional and long understood media like TVand press — Just 20% of retail media spend goes online.
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OpinionRetail IT telling its war stories
At the Retail IT Summit, there has been little talk about technology and much talk about business need, culture, processes and customer demands.
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OpinionD-day for retailers
However much changes in the retail property market, the rent quarterday remains a key point in the calendar.
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OpinionThinking local, acting local
In a previous life, as a fashion buyer, an older and much-lauded colleague was prone to observing: “You never did nothing wrong by buying black.” The same, it would appear, applies to much of store design.
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OpinionShould Marks & Spencer be scared?
Waitrose is making a major play for convenience, stepping into prime Marks & Spencer territory. Should Marks & Spencer be scared, or is it confident of its position?
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OpinionMind your own shop
There seems to be a general consensus now that while 2009 may have been slightly better than many retailers expected, 2010 might be a little more challenging.
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OpinionRetailers and politicians need to help each other
Retailers generally prefer to be left alone by politicians, if only because when politicians do get involved in the sector their actions tend to be utterly unhelpful. But both groups need each other.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can our team fight the threat of a nearby competitor?
A competitor is opening near my branch. How can our team best prepare to fight off the threat they pose?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring customers can pass online CAPTCHA tests
We ask that customers complete a CAPTCHA test when they sign up for our website. How can we make sure that it is a test they can pass?
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OpinionRetail surgery: The Carbon Trust’s energy bill cutting plans
I’ve heard that the Carbon Trust is offering to help small and medium-sized retailers cut their energy bills. Can you tell me more about what it involves?
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OpinionThe empire strikes back
Tesco publishes its first-half results a week on Tuesday. Sainsbury’s follows with its second-quarter numbers a day later. And this year the pair’s performance – even though not over comparable periods – will be even more of a needle match than usual.