Tag Archives: internet shopping

A New User’s Reflections on Online Grocery Shopping

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Leigh Sparks

I am old enough to remember the initial Tesco home shopping trials in Gateshead in the early 1980s (Gateshead Shopping and Information System) when home shopping via Videotex (look it up if you don’t know) was seen as being a … Continue reading →

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Black and Blue

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Leigh Sparks

Some further thoughts on Black Friday, as it has become a disruptive event: The spike in sales was unprecedented, as shown by John Lewis and the figure below (courtesy of @neilretail). This cascaded into problems with store service and then … Continue reading →

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Today: the High Street

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Leigh Sparks

Today, the Today programme on Radio 4 is running two opposing views of the high street and soliciting views about the state of, the memories of, and the future of Britain’s high street.These will feed into a series of reports … Continue reading →

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