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Author: Leigh Sparks
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2.11.2018 Details of my two new books added – Logistics and Retail Management and Food Retailing and Sustainable Development
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- Shops: More or Less (and #IndieHour)
- Shops opening and expanding, queues outside: the High Street picture that’s not making the national news
- Business Rates vs Online Tax
- Halifax - with Elephants
- A Lidl Surprise?
- Journal Articles 2019
- Co-operative Tokens, Sports Direct and The Bristol Pound
- Retail Disruptors - the spectacular rise and impact of the hard discounters
- Business Rates: an election issue (not)
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Tag Archives: Alcohol
Fight Time? The Boxing Day Petition
The issue of opening hours for shops is something that has been an ever-present during my time as an academic. The product-based absurdities of the late 1970s and early 1980s were eventually swept away as opening hours were modernised and … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Black Friday, Boxing Day, Campaigns, Christmas, Consumer Lifestyle, Cyber Monday, Employees, Employment, Employment practices, Government, Internet shopping, Legislation, Online Retailing, Opening Hours, Petitions, Regulation, Small Shops, Supermarket
Tagged Alcohol, Boxing Day, Christmas, Delivery, Employees, Legislation, Online retailing, Opening Hours, Petitions, Supermarkets
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What Are Retailers For?
My recent visit to Poland and the symposium on sustainable development discussion brought back memories from my first visit to Poland in 1987 and discussions we had there around retail location and the purpose of retailing. In that not quite … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Diet and Health, Legislation, Plastic Bags, Retail Levy, Scotland, Scottish Government, Tobacco
Tagged Alcohol, Health Levy, Legislation, Planning, Plastic bags, Policy, Scottish Government, Tobacco
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Buckie or Bruichladdich? You Pay the Price
Scotland’s relationship with fags and booze has been one of the main foci for this government. It is, as I’ve argued before, the fig leaf behind which hypocrisy, sorry modesty, is preserved, as in the laughably titled ‘health levy’. But … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Diet and Health, Government, Pricing, Promotion, Tax
Tagged Alcohol, Health, Minimum Pricing, Scotland, Tax
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My Levy is Your Tax
It might not have been in the manifesto, but it certainly made headlines. Wandering into the newsagent yesterday morning, John Swinney would have seen an almost uniform newspaper lead coverage on his new “Public Health Levy”. Only, the words used … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Consumers, Convenience stores, Food Retailing, Government, Pricing, Regulation, Retail Levy, Retail Policy, Retailers, Tax, Uncategorized, Vacancies
Tagged Alcohol, cigarettes, Food retailing, public health levy, Scotland, SNP, supermarket tax, Vacancies
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Just Majestic
Drafting legislation must be a thankless task. All those lawyers, double meanings, wriggle room, my version of certainty against your version … and that’s before the MSPs get their hands on it. What a job … cross fingers and hope … Continue reading
Posted in Discounts, Government, International Retailing, Majestic, Online Retailing, Pricing, Promotion, Regulation, Retailers
Tagged . Discounts, Alcohol, Alcohol Scotland Act 2010, Lawyers, Legislation, Majestic, Multipacks, Pricing, Scotland, Wine
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