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Category Archives: Pound Shops
#Woolies10
I was out at the country on the tenth ‘anniversary’ of the closure of the last Woolworths store in the UK – 6th January to be exact. I had already contributed to an element of the ‘celebration’/‘remembrance’, so didn’t feel … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Buildings, Churn, Closure, Consumers, Corporate History, Ghost Signs, Heritage, High Streets, Historic Shops, History, Pound Shops, Poundland, Retail Failure, Shopfronts, Store Closures, Streetscapes, Towns, Uncategorized, Urban History, Woolworths
Tagged Churn, closures, Employees, failure, Heritage, High Streets, History, Pound shops, Retail Change, Retail Nostalgia, South Africa, stores, Streetscape, Woolworths
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Orc-(k)nee
There has been a lot of doom and gloom around in the last few weeks about the state of retail and high streets across the country. There is clearly a new changed set of circumstances around consumer behaviours and the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Cooperative Group, Creative Places, Environmental Quality, Food Tourism, Heritage, High Streets, Independents, Lidl, Orkney, Personal, Places, Pound Shops, Poundland, Public Realm, Retail History, Scotland's Islands, Seafood, Small Shops, Small Towns, Stirling, Tourism, Town Centres, Towns, Understanding Scottish Places, Urban History
Tagged History, Knee Caps, Local retail, Orkney, Tourism
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Embracing Failure in the Shadow of Success
This post’s title is the sub-title from a book I recently read. It concerns Mick Channon Jnr and his relationship with his father, who he describes as “an arthritic workaholic grumpy old bastard” and only grudgingly as an ex England … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Bookmakers, Charity Shops, Closure, Consumer Lifestyle, Discounters, Heritage, High Streets, Local Retailers, Markets, Places, Planning, Pound Shops, Property, Regeneration, Retail Economy, Shopfronts, Social Inequality, Social Justice, Store Closures, Town Centres, Towns
Tagged Bookmakers, Books, Class, Community, Discounters, failure, Football, Gentrification, High Street, Horses, Pound shops, Retail, Retail Change, Success
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Super Thursday?
Last Thursday was dubbed Super Thursday by a number of analysts due to the sheer volume of results, trading updates and other news expected from retail companies. It did not disappoint in that Morrisons sold off their convenience stores and … Continue reading
Posted in Aldi, Competition, Convenience stores, Discounters, Discounts, Food Retailing, Lidl, Local Retailers, Multichannel, Places, Post Offices, Pound Shops, Poundland, Scottish Grocers Federation, Understanding Scottish Places, USP
Tagged Aldi, Competition, Discounters, Lidl, Musselburgh, Pound shops, Poundland, Scottish Grocers Federation, Understanding Scottish Places, USP
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Retailer of the Year
I began reading Retail Week when it first started out and have kept up the practice. It has become a great source of current information and occasionally some jolting and thought-provoking commentary or feature. As is has developed its reputation, … Continue reading
Posted in John Lewis Partnership, Market Shares, Pound Shops, Retail Economy, Retailers, Tesco
Tagged Awards, Impact, Retail, retail week, Retailer of the Year
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The Outs and Ins of Administration
Towards the end of last week the retail news was rather dominated by a Deloitte report based on Local Data Company data (The changing face of retail: where did all the shops go?) suggesting that the death of the high … Continue reading
Woolies Five years On
They say time flies when you’re having fun; so it really should have dragged over the last few years through the deepest recession in living memory. But it really doesn’t seem like five years (FIVE YEARS) this week since Woolworth … Continue reading
Posted in Closure, Historic Shops, Pound Shops, Retail History, Woolworths
Tagged Closure, History, Nostalgia, Woolworths
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Going Strong?
I have procrastinated over this post for too long now, having been caught up in the symbolism that this will be my 100th post on this blog. It is of course just another number, and when you get to my … Continue reading
Half a million garden gnomes can’t be wrong, can they?
Twenty years ago when we were in the last recession (albeit a mini and shallow one compared to this time) there were very few discount retailers around – well certainly not of the form that are strong today. A good … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Change, Pound Shops, Retail Economy
Tagged Consumer change, Gnomes, Poundland
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Poundland – Working with the Yankee Dollar
Today’s news that Poundland would start taking American Express cards certainly caught my eye. Most of the media coverage that I saw seemed to focus on the symbolism that Amex in Poundland held for the state of the British high … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Change, Credit and Debit Cards, Pound Shops, Retail Economy
Tagged American Express, Middle Classes, Poundland, Retail Change
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