All Opinion articles – Page 358
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Store manager’s diary: spring is in the air as Lakeside struts its stuff
We always look forward to this time of year – it is when we start selling a lot of our new spring collection.
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OpinionEmbrace the review revolution
Encouraging product reviews provides valuable customer insight and improves loyalty
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Focus on the basics
Earlier today, Retail Week hosted a web seminar following on from the Retail Week Conference.
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Niche retailers need a break
“I hate landlords,” exclaimed William Landale, chief executive of furniture retailer Lombok. Speaking at last week’s Retail Week Conference, Landale rather descriptively said what many small, up-and-coming retailers were thinking.
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Home truths
The next couple of weeks will be among the year’s busier periods for illustrating the curious disconnect between an embattled retail sector and its seeming inability to stop opening new shops.
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Behind every great leader…
Morrisons said farewell to Sir Ken Morrison this week after 55 years. He built the grocer up from a small, family business to a 375-store chain.
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Let’s keep the West End momentum up
There’s no doubt that this year poses challenges for the retail industry, with crunching credit and the nationalisation of Northern Rock sending a chill down retailers’ spines all over the UK.
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OpinionValue is the name of the game
Loyal staff and low prices in this time of soaring inflation are key to offering customers value
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Stark reality from Rose
Any remaining rose-tinted spectacles came off at yesterday’s Retail Week Conference, when Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose warned that he expects the economic storm to rumble on until the middle of 2010.
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A bitter victory against crime
There is no more emotive issue in the industry than crime against retailers and few things have caused more anger than the proposals in the summer of 2006 for the sanction of imprisonment to be taken away from shoplifters.
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Springing into action for Easter at Minehead
Easter is a very busy trading period for us and this year it falls very early. As well as an extensive range of chocolate eggs and Easter gifts, this time of year brings new Spring ranges into stores, which involves rearranging and moving merchandise to promote the new lines.
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M&S has been here before
A retail bellwether hovering around the £1 billion profit mark; an executive chairman almost synonymous with the business itself; signs of deteriorating trading and a clutch of directors eager to move into the top job. Sound familiar?
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Card fraud goes global
Payment association Apacs today released figures for card fraud in 2007.
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Does your scheme service a clear need?
The property industry has been talking about it for a long time, but it has finally begun – last week marked the start of the opening of a huge glut of space in the UK.
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Water, water everywhere
As individuals, we are all aware of the ways we can work towards using less water; turning off taps, noticing and stopping any leaks and investing in water saving devices such as water butts.
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Bless mannequins’ cotton socks
Austin Reed opened a store on London’s Fenchurch Street recently and, if men’s formalwear is your kind of thing, this is not a bad place to visit.
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OpinionPrice has big plans for Waitrose
Waitrose managing director Mark Price was in London yesterday for parent John Lewis Partnership’s results.
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The Retail Week – March 7, 2008
Today will be a good day to go shopping in a John Lewis or Waitrose store.
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Store manager's diary: investing in people will always reward you
I have been the manager of the Wood Green store for 18 months and have been with Peacocks for more than four years.
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Moss Bros in no-man’s land
Sometimes, a picture says more than any words ever could. And the photograph of the Moss Bros store on Oxford Street on page 18, taken this Monday, just screams desperation.