Showing posts with label flatline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flatline. Show all posts
Friday, 28 March 2014

Shop where you borrow instead of buy - making do via the sharing economy...

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Monday, 24 March 2014

How the 2007-08 financial crisis happened - the Minsky explanation

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As we are being told, the world is recovering from the global crisis – for a contrary view, ask the consumer in the street, or better still...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

A Flatline Saturday Afternoon in Whiteleys Queensway...

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Saturday 5th October 2013, 1400:  Whiteleys Shopping Centre , Queensway, London W2 4YN, Previously busy to crowded...           ...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Opportunities in Deflation-Inflation Mix as Shops Slash Margins?

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Ambient foods NAMs may be encouraged at ingredient cost increases finding their way to shelf-prices, resulting in average price increases o...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

The Waitrose effect on house-values: a 'chicken or egg' issue?

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According to an article* in The Daily Mail, Savills Estate Agents have examined how the cost of homes with a Waitrose in the same postcode ...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Everything is negotiable, when the chips are down…

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Keith Ewing, owner of Number Eight Clothing in Stirling, commented that Independent retailers need to "put their heads above the parap...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

2013: A year for realistic optimism?

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With five flatline years behind us, and a high street littered with casualties, realistic NAMs should be finding it easier to factor in a fu...
Thursday, 30 August 2012

Discount stores boom as upmarket shoppers brag...

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The economic quagmire has provided the perfect breeding ground for general merchandise discounters, who have expanded aggressively – more t...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

Tesco catchup in the UK - a need for context?

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Yesterday’s news of Tesco’s improved 3.4% sales growth is encouraging but needs to be kept in context: - UK refocus: The company has comp...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Virtual shops vs. bricks – some spacial implications?

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With a 2012 anticipated 13.2% share of all UK retail trade , and growing at 14%, in a flat-line market, online retail has to represent an un...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Bankers & Politicians, the remaining ‘trust’ evaporates?

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Given the latest global LIBOR banking scandal, with politicians playing belated catch-up, the one certainty is that savvy consumers are beco...
Thursday, 3 May 2012

Argos: the writing is on the wall-chart…?

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Home Retail Group's shares were down 13% yesterday, partly because of uncertainty about its ability to revive the current Argos model, c...
Monday, 30 April 2012

Flash Sale? The New Business Mantra

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Flash sales are a time-limited offer of high discounts on big ticket luxury items . The system is a win-win for both retailers and consume...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Thinking straight for 2012?

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With the most optimistic predictions indicating at best flat-line growth this year, our role in business still remains that of factoring in ...

The Great British Understatement, a way of coping with 2012?

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Slogging through the jungles of Africa in 1873, Dr David Livingstone recorded an extraordinary example of a species that has since become al...