Opinion – Page 64
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OpinionOpinion: Toys R Us’ demise and Amazon’s Achilles’ heel
Maplin and Toys R Us raise questions once again about what kind of business we as consumers actually want and need in today’s world.
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OpinionRetail Week Live: Welcome to the digital revolution
Curious, open-minded, challenging, inspiring. These are the attributes all of us must harness if we are to survive the economic, social and cultural changes that the digital revolution is bringing down upon us with increasing force and speed.
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OpinionOpinion: Should retailers open the returns window?
US retailer L.L. Bean faced a backlash when it dropped its lifetime returns guarantee. Should retailers be offering a more generous returns window?
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OpinionToys R Us didn’t need to fail, failure to change killed it
Hard as it may be to imagine today, Toys R Us was once a revolutionary company.
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OpinionDirect to consumer is back, and this time it’s personal
Former PepsiCo general manager John Maltman explores what is driving today’s shopping behaviour.
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OpinionThe KFC chicken crisis: What can retailers learn?
When KFC inked a new supply chain deal last October, new partner DHL vowed to “rewrite the rule book and set a new benchmark” in food delivery.
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OpinionOpinion: New thinking needed for healthy high streets
You don’t need me to tell you that the outlook for 2018 remains pretty grim with many retailers struggling to keep their heads above water.
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OpinionOpinion: Stop talking disruption – do some disrupting
Why it’s bad news to talk disruption – and good news just to get on, really listen and do the things that your customers want you to do (even if they don’t know it yet).
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OpinionDon’t underestimate Morrisons in fight with Tesco-Booker
The sheer scale of the challenge facing Tesco’s grocery rivals was hammered home this morning following its acquisition of retail and wholesale titan Booker.
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OpinionBankruptcy bug is starting to look like an epidemic
The phrase ‘dropping like flies’ has been often on my lips as we witness one retail collapse after another and watch others staggering into intensive care.
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OpinionOpinion: Are halls or markets the future of food retailing?
Speed and in-store food theatre make uncomfortable bedfellows, but can they be reconciled?
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OpinionOpinion: Is the economy losing momentum?
Recent news about the economy points to a potential downturn. Economist Paul Hollingsworth looks into whether the picture is really so bleak
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OpinionOpinion: Should retailers switch to UK manufacturing?
Despite dampened fashion sales in the UK, retail’s supply chains are still faced with immense pressure to satisfy increased consumer demand for newness in today’s buy-now-wear-now culture.
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OpinionOpinion: Amid retail’s travails, don’t miss the successes
It always looked as if 2018, the first half at least, would be a torrid time for retail. And so it has proved.
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OpinionOpinion: City ignores potential for retail reinvention
“Not all retail is equal” was the overriding message today from David Atkins, the boss of shopping centre landlord Hammerson.
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OpinionOpinion: Not all stores are members of the living dead
Does more retail technology mean fewer physical shops and perhaps, ultimately, almost none?
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OpinionOpinion: We need BAME board members, but not quotas
Should the government think about an ambitious plan to bring more BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic – used to refer to members of non-white communities in the UK) people into Britain’s boardrooms?
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OpinionWhat retail can learn from Amazon’s move into delivery
Last week, one of the largest, most powerful organisations in retail announced it was preparing to launch its own direct delivery service – Shipping with Amazon.
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OpinionOpinion: Technology tie-ups will secure retail’s future
This week Burberry announced a new partnership with UK-based fashion retailer Farfetch that will see its online reach expand from 44 to 150 countries.
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OpinionDriving our digital future with delivery solutions
Hermes UK chief information officer looks at the innovative digital solutions set to tighten the supply chain and better connect with consumers.