Tag Archives: retail failure

Dead or Alive?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Leigh Sparks

A few weeks ago I was reading an interview in the Guardian and the interviewee, the writer Barbara Kingsolver, said about the Great Barrier Reef: “You’re hearing about everything that dies, you’re not hearing about everything that’s still alive.  If … Continue reading →

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Business Rates vs Online Tax

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Leigh Sparks

The upcoming Budget has as normal seen a flurry of ‘advice’ for the UK Government’s Chancellor.  Much of this is special pleading, especially in the light of the so-called End of Austerity.  Within this though the issue of business rates … Continue reading →

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Summertime … … … and the retailing is (far from) easy

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Leigh Sparks

You know how it is … you go away for a few weeks and when you come back everything is sort of the same, but well also, sort of different. The British (maybe only Scottish) summer is of course a … Continue reading →

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