All Policy & legal articles – Page 147
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NewsWestminster to launch inquiry into the high street following Portas hearing
The select committee for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is set to launch an inquiry into the high street, it is understood.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Property - The reality behind the headlines
Retail Week reports all the agenda-setting retail property stories. Laura Heywood asks experts from the UK’s leading property developers about the reality behind the headlines.
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NewsFormer Asda boss Leighton says self-help not reviews will save high street
Former Asda boss Allan Leighton has said that retailers must rely on self-help rather than reviews, such as those carried out by Mary Portas and Bill Grimsey, to save the high street.
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OpinionComment: Grimsey Review means nothing without Government support
Saving the British High Street is like jumping the Grand Canyon. We know some retailers like John Lewis and Next are successful but many remain rooted to the spot, hoping someone will offer them a helping hand.
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AnalysisThe Grimsey Review: Retailers’ reaction
Former Focus boss Bill Grimsey released his review of the high street featuring 31 recommendations to Government yesterday including a freeze on parking charges and a levy on large retailers to fun start ups. Retail Week rounds up the reaction.
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OpinionBlog: Tesco UK chief Chris Bush on the grocer's approach to the changing high street
When Tesco announces it wants to open a store in a town, some assume it’s a foregone conclusion that the store will be built eventually. In reality it is only ever the start of a process of planning and consultation.
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NewsRetailers lambast Grimsey Review's proposed levy on large retailers
Retailers have slammed calls outlined in the Grimsey Review for them to invest hundreds of millions of pounds into a high street levy at a time when they are already battling heavy tax burdens.
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OpinionComment: Government's lack of innovation will be biggest obstacle for Grimsey
Bill Grimsey’s report adds to many of the elements raised by the Portas Pilot Review and introduces new ideas for an alternative future for our High Streets.
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OpinionComment: Relieving rates burden would be real retail fix
Bill Grimsey and Mary Portas may have more in common than either would care to admit. Both have passionately articulated the vast challenge that faces high street retailers.
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NewsHolograms and 'mood pricing' just around the corner, says Grimsey Review
A high street that adjusts prices to customer’s moods and enables them to shop through holograms is just “around the corner” according to the Grimsey Review.
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NewsMary Portas hits back at criticism of the Portas Review in Westminster meeting
Mary Portas believes Government reviews should come with a “health warning” after she received “a bashing” for her work to try and save UK high streets.
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NewsPickles throws weight behind town teams in high street revival campaign
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has thrown the Government’s weight behind town teams, an idea championed by Mary Portas to offer training and support to revive ailing town centres.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How do the Grimsey and Portas reviews compare?
Former Focus boss Bill Grimsey has revealed his 31 recommendations to save the high street. But how does the “alternative” review compare to retail expert Mary Portas’s 28-point review for Government published in 2011? Retail Week takes a look.
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AnalysisThe Grimsey Review: 31 recommendations to Government
The Grimsey Review is to make 31 recommendations to the Government when the review of the high street, which is led by former Focus boss Bill Grimsey, is published on Wednesday. Here, Retail Week lists the action points.
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OpinionComment: The tired business rates system needs some political TLC
Any taxation system has to be fair, transparent and the burden should be equally borne irrespective of sector. Sadly these traits are currently missing from the business rate system.
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NewsGrimsey Review warns 20,000 stores face closure
Twenty thousand stores face closure over the next 12 months, with five or six big names at risk, according to analysis in the Grimsey Review of the high street.
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OpinionComment: The OFT needs to remove ambiguity in price promotion laws
Last week, six furniture stores and carpet retailers came under scrutiny from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for their pricing strategy.
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NewsBusiness rates income to exceed council tax for first time in 10 years
Business rates income in Great Britain is forecast to exceed council tax for the first time in 10 years in 2015.
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OpinionComment: Are Sales practices destroying trust in retail?
OFT blasts carpet and furniture stores for misleading price cuts’, read the website of one national newspaper last Friday, before then reporting ‘Retail chiefs blast OFT over carpet and furniture price-fixing probe’.
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NewsOFT furniture pricing probe blamed for retail park footfall decline
The Office of Fair Trading’s probe into furniture and flooring retailers’ promotional tactics has been blamed for an “unusual” decline in footfall on retail parks including the critical bank holiday weekend.