by Linda Ward | May 21, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, General, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Top Tips
Restarting Retail is a small phrase but has really big implications. As restrictions begin to lift over the next few weeks retailers are putting together their plans for reopening their shops and stores. There is a lot of talk about a “new normal” and that is what we...
by Linda Ward | Jan 24, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability, sustainablefashion
In November I attended the Westminster Business Forum on Sustainability, Ethics and the UK Fashion Industry. It was a really thought provoking morning. After the event I tweeted that my takeaway in three words are: Transparency Scalability Collaboration I’ll be...
by Linda Ward | May 15, 2019 | Comment, Irish Retail, Retail trading
The retail apocalypse has arrived, or so the media are constantly reminding us, and don’t they love a bad news story. The good news stories are relegated to the back page or don’t make it to publication at all. This blog post is about the good news in the retail world...
by Linda Ward | Mar 8, 2019 | Comment, Consumers, Irish Retail, Marketing
The apocalypse of traditional bricks and mortar shops is regularly trumpeted in the media. Yes the sector is changing and yes there are many new ways of buying stuff and yes the wonderful world of the web has had an impact on how we buy stuff. Yet we all still go into...
by Linda Ward | Dec 13, 2018 | Comment, Irish Retail
At this time last year I wrote about the scandal of Clerys being closed for its third Christmas. The doors were shut for trading in June 2015, with Christmas 2018 as the fourth Christmas with the shutters firmly down. However there are changes afoot. Another new...
by Linda Ward | Nov 28, 2018 | Comment, Irish Retail, Retail trading
Is Black Friday an opportunity or a threat for retailers and/or consumers? As this US imported event extends from the traditional one day to two, three and five days – or even a fortnight – is it a question of jumping on the discount bandwagon? How is this...
