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Category Archives: Panic buying
Brexit isn’t Delivering
Neil Saunders provides a valuable service by culling newspapers on a daily basis for retail stories and putting them up on his twitter feed. This saves time for me and also provides a good snapshot of retail sentiment (He does … Continue reading →
Posted in Availability, Brexit, Christmas, Consumers, Covid19, distribution, Employment, European Union, Frictionless, Government, Logistics, Next, Panic buying, Referendum, Retailers, Supply Chains, Wages, Warehouses
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, Christmas, Covid-19, Delays, Distribution and Supply, Inflation, logistics, Next, Retail, Shortages, Shrinkflation, Supply chains, Wages
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Convenience Stores and the Covid-19 Pandemic
This afternoon I am very pleased to be presenting at the Annual Conference of the Scottish Grocers’ Federation in Glasgow. The novelty of doing this F2F is slightly offset by the wisdom of doing so, not because of what I … Continue reading →
Posted in Community, Consumer Change, Convenience, Convenience stores, Covid19, Essential Retailing, Food Retailing, Independents, Internet shopping, Local Retailers, Lockdown, Pandemic, Panic buying, Retailing, Scottish Grocers Federation, Sustainability
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Tagged Communities, Convenience stores, Covid-19, independents, Lockdown, Online retailing, Pandemic, Retailing change, Scotland, Scottish Grocers Federation, Sustainability
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Goodbye 2020 – Hello 2021 and beyond
The Covid19 addled 2020 is behind us in calendar terms, though we are continuing to live through the lockdowns, and all their implications, at the start of what in normal times might be a brand new shiny year. In a … Continue reading →
Posted in Consumers, Covid19, Employment, Essential Retailing, Food Retailing, Government, Independents, Local Retailers, Localisation, Lockdown, Online Retailing, Panic buying, Retail Change, Retailers, Retailing, Social Change, Social Inequality, Town Centre Action Plan, Town Centre Action Plan Review Group, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized
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Tagged closures, Consumers, Covid-19, Food Banks, Pandemic, Retail Future, Retailers, Scottish Government, Social Renewal, Town Centre Review, towns, Wellbeing
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COVID-19 and Christmas
About six or so weeks ago I completed a piece for the Economics Observatory (@EconObservatory) on the impact of Coronavirus on the UK’s retail sector. You can find my short intro to it on this blog and the full piece … Continue reading →
Posted in Availability, Boxing Day, Brexit, Christmas, Consumers, Covid19, distribution, Employees, European Union, Food Banks, Frictionless, Government, Home Delivery, IKEA, Independents, Internet shopping, Just in Time, Local Retailers, Office for National Statistics, Online Retailing, Opening Hours, Panic buying, Regulation, Retail Economy, Retailers, Stirling, Stock, Supply Chains, Uncategorized
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Tagged Boxing Day, Brexit, Business rates, Christmas, Christmas Markets, Covid-19, Economic Observatory, Food Banks, Food Retailers, Home Delivery, Independent Retailing, Internet Sales, Lockdowns, Online retailing, Panic buying, Retail Sales, Retail Sector, stock holding, Stock piling, Supply chains
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How is Coronavirus affecting the UK’s Retail Sector?
A couple of months ago, Professor Graeme Roy of the Fraser of Allander Institute invited me to try to answer the question posed at the head of this post. He is part of / leading an ESRC funded ‘observatory’ (Coronavirus … Continue reading →
Posted in Academics, Cities, Competition, Consumer Change, Consumers, Covid19, Essential Retailing, Food Retailing, Internet shopping, Local Retailers, Lockdown, Non-Essential Retailing, Office for National Statistics, Panic buying, Retail Change, Retail Sales, Retailers, Retailing, Sales, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized
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Tagged Cities, closures, Covid-19, Data, Economics, Employment, Essential Retailing, Food retailing, Footfall, Lockdown, Non-Essential Retailing, Non-food retailing, Office for National Statistics, Online shopping, Retail Sales, Retailing, Shop Numbers, towns
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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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