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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
12.07.2018 Our final Trading Places column for Town & Country Planning is now available on the Trading Places section of this blog
Top Posts & Pages
- 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: Opening Hours
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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Don’t Bank On It
I was in a Building Society branch last Saturday morning in the centre of Stirling – a rare enough occurrence on its own, but made more interesting by the conversation going on next to me. The customer had a problem … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, Customer Service, Internet shopping, Marks and Spencer, Opening Hours
Tagged Banks, M&S, Opening Hours, Retail, Service
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