by Linda Ward | Jul 15, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading
To say that the current retail environment is challenging is a huge understatement. Having been closed for nearly three months, most bricks and mortar fashion retailers only reopened a few weeks ago. Many non-essential retailers were closed for 12 weeks during the...
by Linda Ward | Jun 24, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability
The media have been reporting about the demise of bricks and mortar retail and the retail apocalypse for the last couple of years. The long anticipated retail apocalypse is definitely here now, it’s galloped up on us and has overtaken a lot of retailers. The global...
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...
