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Category Archives: Panic buying
Retailing, Shopping and Covid-19
Over the last couple of months I have produced on this blog a range of pieces around retailing, shopping and the coronavirus pandemic. There will no doubt be more to be said as the situation develops. One of these pieces … Continue reading →
Posted in Community, Consumer Change, Consumers, Covid19, Employment, Employment practices, Government, High Streets, Independents, Institute for Retail Studies, Internet shopping, Lockdown, Multichannel, Online Retailing, Panic buying, Places, Public Policy, Reinvention, Retail Change, Retail Policy, Retail Sales, Retailers, Retailing, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Scotland's Towns Partnership, Scottish Government, Scottish Retailing, Shopping, Social Inequality, Tax, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized, University of Stirling
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Tagged Covid-19, Institute for Retail Studies, Institute of Place Management, Lockdown, Pandemic, Public Policy, Retail Change, Retail Employment, Retail Sales, Retail Studies, Retailing, Scotland, Shopping, Town Centres, towns, University of Stirling
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Scottish Retail Sales: seeing the impact of Lockdown
Earlier today (22nd April) the March figures from the Scottish Retail Sales Monitor (managed by the British Retail Consortium and KPMG) were published. They were as bad as everyone expected, and the commentary in the media showed due concern (for … Continue reading →
Posted in Availability, BRC, Closure, Community, Consumer Change, Consumers, Convenience stores, Covid19, Food, Food Retailing, Grocery, High Streets, Independents, Internet shopping, Lockdown, Market Shares, Non-food retailing, Panic buying, Places, Rents, Resilience, Retail Change, Retail Economy, Retail Sales, Retailers, Retailing, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Scottish Retail Consortium, Scottish Retail Sales, Scottish Retailing, Shopping, Social Inequality, Supply Chains, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized
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Tagged Closure, Consumers, Convenience stores, Covid19, failure, Food retailing, Grocery, Internet Sales, Lockdown, Non-food retailing, Online retailing, Pandemic, Panic buying, Retail Sales, Scotland, Scotland's High Streets, Scotland's Towns, scottish retail consortium
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Supermarket Nightmares: Keeping your Distance
In, what seems like an eternity ago. I got into a degree of trouble for suggesting that food retailers, for good or bad, were ‘social engineers’ and we needed to recognise and understand the implications of this. This was on … Continue reading →
Posted in Academics, Amazon Go, Behavioural Economics, Consumer Change, Consumer Choice, Consumers, Dark Stores, Design, Employment practices, Food Retailing, Food Standards Scotland, Health, Panic buying, Retail Change, Retailers, Social Inequality, Supermarket, Uncategorized, University of Stirling, Well being
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Tagged Amazon Go, Consumer Behaviour, Covid19, Design, Food retailing, Food Standards Scotland, Ford Commissary, Future, Internet, Keedoozle, Social Distancing, Social Engineers, Supermarket
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Changing Priorities? The End of the (Retail) World as We Knew It
In the last three posts I have looked at the food vs non-food dichotomy in retailing as COVID19 sweeps through the country. The figures and situation are astonishing and something no-one predicted a few weeks/months ago. How do we make … Continue reading →
Posted in Availability, Community, Consumer Change, Consumer Choice, Consumers, Contactless, Convenience stores, Covid19, Food Retailing, Grocery, Independents, Internet shopping, Local Retailers, Localisation, Non-food retailing, Online Retailing, Panic buying, Producers, Resilience, Retail Change, Retail Sales, Retailers, Small Shops, Supermarket, Suppliers, Supply Chains, Uncategorized
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Tagged Business rates, Consumers, Contactless, Convenience, Covid-19, Crisis, Food, Grocery, Local Retailing, Lockdown, Non-Food, Online shopping, Producers, Resilience, Retailing, Supply chains
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Christmas and more in March – but only for some
On the 31st March, Kantar released their data on the last four weeks of grocery sales and the figures were eye-watering, outperforming Christmas sales and periods. March was the biggest month of grocery sales in the UK ever recorded. In … Continue reading →
Posted in Alcohol, Christmas, Community Grocer, Consumer Change, Convenience stores, Covid19, Data, Food, Food Retailing, Internet shopping, Kantar, Lidl, Local Retailers, Logistics, Non-food retailing, Online Retailing, Panic buying, Restaurants, Retail Change, Retail Sales, Retailers, Sainsbury, Uncategorized
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Tagged Alcohol, Christmas, Convenience Retailing, Covid19, Food, Grocery, independents, Just in Time, Kantar, Market share, Non-Food, Online retailing, Panic buying, Retail, Sales, Specialist retailers, stock holding, Store Cupboard Goods
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Retail Armageddon
A couple of weeks ago we were delighted to have Helen Dickenson, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium deliver our Retail Futures lecture. Her title, Retail Armageddon or Reinvention? and her presentation were about the retail restructuring underway. Three … Continue reading →
Posted in Community, Community Grocer, Consumers, Cooperative Group, Covid19, Employment, Food Retailing, Local Retailers, Logistics, Opening Hours, Panic buying, Retailers, Retailing, Scottish Retail Consortium, Shopping, Supermarket, Supply Chains, Uncategorized
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Tagged Community Retailing, Consumers, Covid19, Demand, Food Banks, Food Supply, Independent Retailing, logistics, Panic buying, Retailing, Supply chains
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Feeding the (Potentially Rather Ill) Nation?
I am not an expert on viruses or their spread and have no knowledge of how/when/if Covid19 will develop in the UK. But I have done some work on retail supply chains and however it develops they are potentially about … Continue reading →
Posted in Consumers, Covid19, Employees, Employment practices, Food Retailing, Frictionless, Government, Independents, Internet shopping, Local Retailers, Online Retailing, Panic buying, Retail leadership, Retailing, Supply Chains, Uncategorized
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Tagged Consumers, Covid19, Delivery, Disruption, Employees, Food, Government, Internet, Local Retailers, Panic buying, Retail Supply Chains
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