Showing posts with label specialist retail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label specialist retail. Show all posts
Tuesday 2 July 2013

Getting the numbers right in Independent Retailer Month

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Despite the obvious advantages of capitalising on the public mood in support of local retail, coupled with fuel  savings and ultimate dilut...
Monday 24 September 2012

Home Delivery charges - a one-way subsidy?

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Given that picking, bagging and making a home delivery costs supermarkets up to £20, the £5 charge actually represents a subsidy for the se...
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...
Wednesday 27 June 2012

Touch but don't press - How daily Apples have become unhealthy for the competition

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Latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel reveal that in the UK, more than one in seven people now have a tablet in their household and over 52%...
Friday 4 May 2012

Target to delist Kindle, fed-up ‘show-rooming’ for online...

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Target, the US mass market discounter, communicated the decision to stores last week, and underlines growing antagonism between Amazon and ...
Friday 13 April 2012

Flash Mobs morphing into Cash Mobs, a new force in retailing?

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Inspired by Flash Mobs, a cash mob is a group of people who assemble at a local business and all buy items from that business. These groups ...
Tuesday 13 March 2012

Retailers hampered by lack of innovation?

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If the test of innovation is a consumer’s willingness to pay, then it could be said that retailers have it all their own way.  Whilst a bran...
Thursday 26 January 2012

High Street survival and leases

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For many years, UK and Irish retail property markets have been compromised by the existence of 25 year upward-only leases with no break clau...
Wednesday 11 January 2012

The future of Specialist retail?

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Three decades ago, the rule of thumb in US retail was that there was room for three big players in each product category. “Good, better, and...
Tuesday 14 April 2009

Credit insurance and the role of independent retailers

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Whilst the withdrawal of trade credit insurance cover for independent retailers has several implications in terms of increased customer conc...