All Opinion articles – Page 89
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OpinionOpinion: How to capitalise on January's health kick
The healthy snack market has grown at a phenomenal rate over the past five years, outpacing its less nutritious counterparts by a mile.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How to cut through the video noise
How can retailers cut through the video noise?
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OpinionOpinion: Tesco's Christmas trading 'treasure trove'
So, who won Christmas in grocery? The answer, of course, is the Lincolnshire Co-op, with a cracking 12.6% like-for-like sales uplift.
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OpinionOpinion: Closing on Boxing Day is about having heart
The simple question for retail leaders is – do we care as much about family as we do about making money?
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OpinionOpinion: A Christmas turkey for Sainsbury’s food sales?
Sainsbury’s may have beaten the City’s sales expectations over Christmas, but are things as rosy in the grocer’s garden as it likes to make out?
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OpinionOpinion: How can retailers win millennial loyalty?
The rise of ecommerce and mobile has given retailers a new roster of tools to win customer loyalty, but should they go back to basics?
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OpinionOpinion: Happy Christmas, but a challenging New Year?
It was late, cliff-hangingly late. But, as usual, Christmas did come for retailers.
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OpinionOpinion: Is it still worth trading in the West End?
The cost of opening a successful shop in London’s West End may outweigh the benefits. It could be better to go to a shopping centre.
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OpinionOpinion: Embracing millennial employees
While many retailers think it is hard having millennials as customers, employing them is another matter.
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OpinionBlog: Helping retailers to beat the basket blues
In the wake of the festive retail season, Hermes’ Matt Diner looks at why consumers abandon their online shopping baskets.
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OpinionOpinion: How Lovehoney got its licence to thrill
Lovehoney co-founder Neal Slateford writes how eye-catching licensing deals helped grow the etailer’s sales from £15m to £60m in five years.
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OpinionOpinion: Why price will remain king for grocers in 2017
The mainstream grocers have repeatedly suggested that value for money is about more than just price – but price, it seems, continues to reign supreme.
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OpinionOpinion: House of Fraser doesn’t need a bank
Banks are banks and shops remain shops. Putting one into the other will not equate to additional sales.
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OpinionPractical lessons in reinvigorating high streets
British towns should take inspiration from Belgium, where a passionate mayor forced through change to make his city’s high streets fit for the 21st century.
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OpinionBlog: Will driverless cars revolutionise retail delivery?
One of the biggest challenges faced by retailers and logistics firms ahead of Christmas was finding enough lorry drivers to move goods around.
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OpinionOpinion: Debenhams must keep its identity intact
It hasn’t taken long for Debenhams’ new chief executive Sergio Bucher to put his mark on the British department store chain.
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OpinionOpinion: Artificial intelligence – look before you leap
Artificial intelligence (AI). Everyone seems to be at it and it’s hard to avoid reading about the topic. Just look at you now.
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OpinionOpinion: Convenient? Not from behind the counter
Convenience and community stores are all the rage, but try working in one. I do – it’s in East Knoyle. Keeping a smiling face can be a struggle.
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OpinionOpinion: Southern Rail and flagging retail footfall
Most of us know someone who has experienced the perils of #Southernfail.
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OpinionOpinion: Voice search is the next mobile frontier
Ongoing technological change means being ‘mobile first’ is no longer enough to guarantee retail success.