All Opinion articles – Page 74
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OpinionOpinion: Asos sets benchmark for embracing tech change
Cast your mind back 25 years, to a world in which digital giants like Amazon and Asos didn’t exist.
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OpinionOpinion: The three tech-led models disrupting retail
The ability of technology to disrupt the retail market is well-known, but does the emerging trend of online to offline suggest that things may be changing?
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers must adapt to maintain success
The retail landscape is changing, and if retailers don’t embrace smart technologies, many will find they will fall behind those that do.
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OpinionOpinion: Automation means shopper-free shops
The trend towards automating everything in the interests of speed and ‘convenience’ is one to be wary of.
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OpinionA Brexit customs plan fit for businesses and consumers
As the clock ticks inexorably towards March 29, 2019, the UK’s future trading relationship with the EU and the wider world will have profound implications for retailers’ supply chains and the price and availability of the goods they provide.
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OpinionWhy driverless lorries offer greener logistics
With the news that driverless lorries will be trialled in the UK next year, Hermes’ Carl Robinson looks at the environmental impact.
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OpinionOpinion: Browett’s exit is unfortunate but unsurprising
Dunelm boss John Browett’s untimely departure after less than three years in the role brings two questions immediately to mind.
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OpinionOpinion: The West End’s swings and roundabouts
As one door swings open, another closes in the West End’s two principal thoroughfares.
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OpinionOpinion: Amazon-Whole Foods deal will make waves in UK
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods will complete next week – a deal that will upgrade the niche grocer to a genuine disruptor in the UK market.
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OpinionIs Dixons right to be cautious on smartphone upgrades?
Dixons Carphone’s warning on the smartphone market prompted a second battering of the share price in a fortnight.
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OpinionOpinion: Asos and New Look set example on fashion ethics
Retailers have often been in the firing line over working practices within their supply chains, but this week two big names were the ones taking aim.
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OpinionOpinion: Card Factory exposes Clintons’ house of cards
As more and more shoppers jump on the Card Factory bandwagon, its biggest rival Clintons is fast being exposed as a house of cards.
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OpinionRowan Gormley: What direct marketers can teach us
At heart, I’m a direct marketer and relatively new to the world of multichannel retailing.
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OpinionOpinion: John Lewis, retailer in residence
News that John Lewis is poised to mock up try-before-you-buy in-store apartments shows it is making use of existing assets. Retail Week Live 2017 ChatbotTo communicate with the Retail Week Live 2017 Chatbot you will need to voluntarily add the bot as a contact from within Skype, Facebook Messenger, or ...
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OpinionEvery retailer needs a strategy for going up against Amazon
I’m a ‘practicologist’, and while not a soothsayer, I do have a reasonably good idea of what’s coming down the track.
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OpinionOpinion: Don’t judge Bunnings by B&Q's standards... yet
Critics on both sides of the UK DIY war came out in force this week to tear strips off both Kingfisher-owned B&Q and its new rival Bunnings.
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OpinionBlog: Creating a level playing field in retail
Following recent media attention surrounding inequality in the workplace, Jill Maples, HR director at Hermes, addresses the issues.
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OpinionOpinion: Amazon’s Argos lookalike is no game-changer
Amazon has introduced Instant Pickup at selected US campuses.
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OpinionWhy is retail hitting 'subscribe' on beauty boxes?
As The Hut Group acquires Glossybox and rumours circulate of Walmart’s interest in Birchbox, personalised monthly subscriptions look to be a treasure chest of opportunities.
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OpinionCo-op boss Steve Murrells: Why we employ former slaves
The National Crime Agency’s report published last week revealed that slavery and human trafficking is more prevalent today than most of us thought.