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Category Archives: Sainsbury
Tesco, Booker and Poundland
In a recent Retail Week opinion piece the columnist John Richards mused about the cost of all the adventures Sainsbury have had over the years and whether the cost outweighed the benefits and whether the management time and effort could … Continue reading
Posted in Accounting, administration, Booker, Consumer Change, Food Retailing, Government, Mergers, Netto, Poundland, Regulation, Retail Change, Sainsbury, Shareholders, Store Closures, Tesco
Tagged Accounting, Booker, Food retailing, Merger, Poundland, Restaurants, Shareholders, Tesco
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Fake Shops and some other retail news
Everyone pretty much agrees these days that we are living in an era of ‘fake news’, or outright lies as it would be better called. You know the sort of things – £350m per week to spend on the NHS, … Continue reading
Posted in BHS, Brands, Employment, High Streets, Independents, Local Retailers, Places, Retail Failure, Sainsbury, Store Closures, Tesco, Town Centres, Waterstones
Tagged BHS, Bookshops, Brands, Employment, High Streets, independents, Passing-off, Philip Green, towns, Vacant Shops, Waterstones
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A quiet few weeks in retailing (not)
The last few weeks have been really quiet in retailing – no, just kidding. What with Brexit – and the uncertainty it has generated – beginning to take hold in the markets, the unfolding BHS and Sports Direct scandals putting … Continue reading
Posted in administration, Asda, Brexit, Discounters, Food Retailing, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, My Local, Netto, Sainsbury, Sports Direct
Tagged administration, Asda, BHS, Discounters, Food retailing, Marks and Spencer, Netto, Retailing, Sainsbury
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Have You Heard of Sanders Bros?
For me it all began when one of my MBA retailing students showed me an advertisement from the 1933 Times and challenged me, as a Professor of Retail Studies, to tell him who Sanders Bros were, given that they were … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Books, Closure, Food Retailing, Historic Shops, History, Retail Failure, Retail History, Sainsbury, Sanders Bros, Tesco
Tagged Book, failure, Retail History, Sainsbury, Sanders Bros, Tesco
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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
Online vs Offline: Like for Like?
So the received wisdom about Christmas is that it was an online one. Retailers with good online offers – or perhaps more accurately – compelling multi-channel approaches, did really well, and those without, well, did without, Thus the march onwards … Continue reading
Posted in Catalogues, Christmas, Closure, Internet, Multichannel, Online Retailing, Sainsbury, Scottish Retail Sales, Tesco
Tagged Christmas, closures, Internet, Like-for-like, Retail Sales, Scotland
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Swings and Roundabouts on the Tax Front
A number of issues in the press the last week caught my eye around the subject of taxes. We start with the news out of Denmark that the government there has announced the removal of the world’s first “fat tax”. … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Diet and Health, Rates, Retail Levy, Sainsbury, Tax
Tagged Denmark, Fat Tax, Health Levy, Rrates, Sainsbury, Scotland
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