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Retail Speak: November 2009
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Tuesday, 17 November 2009. Public Procurement and SMEs. The latest wheeze though, is the icing on the cake. In the past few weeks I have been inundated by adverts - usually from the Government funded Businesss Links, offering me training courses on how to cope with the paperwork (which confirms the levels that are now in place! Labels: Public Procurement process. Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Just off of Shopping street is ...
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Retail Speak: February 2009
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Friday, 27 February 2009. This blog tries to avoid being partisan political but there are rimes when it is difficult to understand the machinations of a government whose meanderings seem confused and ill considered. The most consistently ill-considered has been the policies relating to transport. How about South Hampshire? The South Hampshire Rapid Transit system would have provided a relief and the only viable alternati...
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Retail Speak: October 2009
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Friday, 23 October 2009. It has been a while since my last posting, mainly because, like everyone else at this time, I've been out there chasing ever less business opportunities. Which is why I was surprised to read in an article in the Retail Bulletin this morning about the number of businessses who have indicated in a survey that they intend to cut customer service training and also customer facing staff. Office of Ret...
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Retail Speak: Reporting Trade Figures
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Tuesday, 11 May 2010. I am sorry to have to report that those upon whom we rely on much of our news and information seem to have developed a process by which they inform us of 'facts' that are nothing more than speculation. The date of Easter, being a truly movable feast, ensures a marked inconsistency in results every year! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welbeck Retail Management Limited. Prof Cathy Parker's Blog.
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Retail Speak: August 2010
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Tuesday, 24 August 2010. This blog is not going to make a comment on the rights and wrongs of the scrapping of the RDAs since I am ambivalent about them - they have been costly and overly bureaucratic, and at times in my own dealings with them have actually totally lost sight of the funds and the end-uses; but they have also been able to act strategically across a region which has sometimes been immensely beneficial.
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Retail Speak: June 2009
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Sunday, 28 June 2009. Land banking v local trade. Thursday, 11 June 2009. Astounding discovery - customers are important. Has anyone else noticed? There seems to be a theme coming from the global sages of retailing that it is important to listen to and to repsond to customers. Well there's a novel idea! I find it hard to credit, yet these are the words coming from conference after conference. Is it really me, or did ...
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Retail Speak: April 2009
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Friday, 17 April 2009. The Wonder of Woolies. I can see no fault in the idea; on behalf of the town centres who once hosted a Woolworths, I welcome the plan that will do much to help fill otherwise darkened spaces amongst many shadowy places - not to mention the good news for the people who lost their jobs, a light at the end of their tunnel too! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welbeck Retail Management Limited.
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Retail Speak: The people have spoken
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Sunday, 9 May 2010. The people have spoken. The election has been and gone, and the country still waits with bated breath about who will govern in this forthcoming Parliament. This blog has no interest in the partisan politics of the past few months but has a great interest in the state of the economy and about the nature of the threats and oportunities that face our small retail businesses in the UK. Take a look at your...
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Retail Speak: Business Rates
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Thursday, 23 September 2010. In a paper that was published in July 2009 ( Hallsworth A and Orchard J, 2009, Retail regeneration in Southampton: seeking the bigger picture, Journal of Place Management and Development, Vol 2 Issue 2, pages 140-153, Emerald Publishing. Here in this article. keep on posting such article here in future too. 14 November 2011 at 08:33. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Prof Cathy Parker's Blog.
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Retail Speak: Expert advice
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Information, news and views of the trading world of small to medium sized retailers. Sunday, 9 May 2010. In these straitened times it is very possible that your skills as a retailer will be tested well beyond their normal range. It is not something that you should give yourself a bad time over, rather you should consider a review of your business with a view to making the best of the opportunities that will be confronting you and minimising the threats that will jus as assuredly be coming along. Nurserie...