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Tag Archives: Food retailing
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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An overview of (UK) retailing
One of the common questions that I get asked, generally and by journalists and students, is ‘what is going on in retailing?’ There are many ways to answer this, and in the various presentations I do, some of the themes … Continue reading
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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Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?
A few weeks ago I took part in a workshop organised by the Stirling Management School’s Behavioural Science group and supported by SIRE (Scottish Institute for Research in Economics). The topic was consumer preferences, perceptions and decision-making, mainly in the … Continue reading
A Lidl Surprise?
August is traditionally the silly season in the media, as journalists and readers/viewers take advantage of the summer weather and holidays (well that’s the theory) and disappear, leaving space for all sorts of outlandish reporting attempting to fill column inches, … Continue reading
Posted in Discounters, Food Retailing, Lidl, Loyalty, Loyalty Schemes, Market Shares, Scotland
Tagged Discounters, Food retailing, Lidl, Loyalty, Market share, Morrisons, Scotland
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Lampeter Food Festival
As I noted in my last post, I was based down in Wales for personal reasons for much of July. It did however allow me to return to Lampeter, the small West Walian town where I spent almost four years … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Food, Food Retailing, High Streets, organic, Retail Economy, Rural, Town Centres
Tagged Festivals, Food, Food retailing, High Streets, Lampeter, Market Towns, Retail Change, Rural, Town Centres, Transition
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The Conversation: What is Going on at Tesco?
The University of Stirling is a supporter of The Conversation, and I published a commentary there yesterday. I reblog it here. My commentary, perhaps unsurprisingly, was on the goings-on at Tesco, which has been something of a running theme on … Continue reading
